More US firms are providing faith-based support for employees
It has become standard practice for US corporations to assure employees of support regardless of their race, gender, or sexual orientation. There’s now an intensifying push to ensure that companies are similarly supportive and inclusive when it comes to employees’ religious beliefs.
One barometer: more than 20 percent of the Fortune 100 have established faith-based employee resource groups, according to an AP report, and a high-powered conference took place last month in Washington aimed at expanding those ranks.
“Corporate America is at a tipping point toward giving religion similar attention to that given the other major diversity categories,” said Brian Grim, founder and president of the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation which cohosted the conference along with Catholic University of America’s Busch School of Business.
