Stanley Black & Decker fired an employee in 2023 after she complained about biased treatment based on race. Stanley Black & Decker scored a 100 on the 2023 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Stanley Black & Decker increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. The company covers transgender-related medical costs for its employees and their children and provides specific sexual orientation and gender identity-based benefits. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Stanley Black & Decker 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. Stanley Black & Decker is a signatory of the Business Roundtable's 2019 Statement on the Purpose of Corporation, which promotes stakeholder capitalism. The company has also lobbied for the Equality PAC. The company supports the Equality Act, funds multiple LGBTQ organizations, and mandates racial bias training for all employees. For these reasons, Stanley Black & Decker receives a High Risk rating.