Molson Coors

Coors, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Vizzy Hard Seltzer, Blue Moon, Topo Chico, MillerCoors
Illinois
Food Beverage and Tobacco

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High Risk

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Molson Coors scored a 100 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with Human Rights Campaign’s controversial demands, Molson Coors increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company provides a benefits package for employees which covers transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Molson Coors forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. The company supports the Equality Act. Molson Coors opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. The company opposed legislation in Iowa intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. Molson Coors opposed the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, which would prohibit teaching gender identity and sexual orientation to kids in K-3rd grade. The company has marched in the Milwaukee Pride Parade every year since 2017. Through the Miller Lite brand, Molson Coors aired an advertisement criticizing the lack of inclusivity towards women in the beer industry and offering to "buy back" distasteful beer ads featuring women. Miller Lite has worked with the Matthew Shepherd Foundation for LGBTQ+ advocacy and Vizzy Hard Seltzer made a pride pack in collaboration with the HRC. Molson Coor's CEO, Gavin Hattersley, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace. Vizzy Hard Seltzer is a gold sponsor of the HRC, has donated $1 million to the HRC, and publicly advocated for donations to the HRC on Giving Tuesday. Molson Coors has pledged over $4 million to Black Lives Matter and related causes. The company also supports the Bail Project, which pays bail for criminals and works to end the cash bail system. Molson Coors is a copper sponsor of Out & Equal, a corporate partner of the NGLCC, and sponsored Denver Pridefest. Miller Lite launched the "Open & Proud" program in partnership with the Equality Federation, to which it has donated $450,000, and has partnered with the Matthew Shepherd Foundation for LGBTQ+ advocacy. The company's "Tap Into Change" program raised $100,000 for LGBTQ+ focused organizations. Molson Coors offers a "Gender Affirmation Benefits" program to its Canadian employees that covers the cost of "masculinisation or feminisation treatments and procedures for their gender transition surgery". For these reasons, Molson Coors receives a High Risk rating.

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