Veolia
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Veolia has stakes in the water, waste management, and transport industries. Veolia has severed all its ties with the Israeli market due to ideological pressure from pro-Palestinian organizations. By complying with the HRC’s controversial demands, Veolia 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, and marketing. Veolia 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. Veolia North America has hosted events regarding sustainable development, and the company has revealed its goal to become carbon neutral by 2050, despite its status as a public service corporation. The company supports the Equality Act. For these reasons, Veolia receives a High Risk rating.