Schneider Electric
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Schneider Electric often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Schneider Electric occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.
View Full Corporate Bias Ratings ReportHas canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
Schneider Electric received a score of 80 on the 2025 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. The company recruits employees based on sexual identity issues. The company discriminates against vendors that do not promote divisive sex and gender policies, indicating it prioritizes sexual issues over merit (1)(2). However, the company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (3).
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
Schneider Electric’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company forces employees to attend multiple, controversial trainings on gender identity, sexual orientation, transgender issues, and divisive racial ideology. The company provides a specific benefits guide with a comprehensive explanation of transgender services funded by the company (1)(2). Schneider Electric is a signatory of the Gender & Diversity KPI Alliance, appearing to prioritize diversity over merit in its business structure through the establishment of gender and racial targets for its leadership composition and its support of DEI in its hiring and promotions (3)(4). Schneider Electric requires unconscious bias training for all employees annually (5). The company protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (6).
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Schneider Electric posted an article encouraging people to read White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (1). The company’s CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire has signed the CEO Action Group for the European New Deal, and the company has endorsed and outlined a plan of action to support the Biden administration’s climate plan (2)(3).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Schneider’s HRC 2025 CEI rating indicates the company covers transgender related costs for its employees and their children, including paid short-term leave, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, chest surgeries, genital surgeries, medical visits and lab monitoring, travel and lodging. By allowing a political stakeholder group to dictate operations, the company increases health care costs and risks dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders (1)(2). Schneider Electric is a corporate partner of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (3). The company’s charitable foundation supports DEI-focused organizations (4). Schneider Electric and Foundation are a corporate partner of Ashoka, a global network of entrepreneurs focused on widespread, systemic social and environmental change (5).
Board Bias
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Shareholder Proposals
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| Date | ESG Category | Proponent | Summary of Resolution | Mgmt Rec | Total Vote % in Favor |
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| 5/4/23 | Environmental | Management | opinion on the company climate strategy | For | 95.75% |