Exxon gets another push. (Policy).Nothing has really changed at ExxonMobil Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), a multi-national American corporation and a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil company[2] . Still, gay rights activists were pleased with the results of the Fortune 100 company's May 28 shareholder meeting in Dallas. More than 27% of shareholders voted to include sexual orientation sexual orientation n. The direction of one's sexual interest toward members of the same, opposite, or both sexes, especially a direction seen to be dictated by physiologic rather than sociologic forces. in a corporate nondiscrimination non·dis·crim·i·na·tion n. 1. Absence of discrimination. 2. The practice or policy of refraining from discrimination. non policy, up from about 24% last year and from just 6% in 1999, when the matter was first considered at the company's annual meeting. Despite the growing support for the measure, activists do not expect management to make changes any time soon. "The company maintains that it has a broad, nonspecific nonspecific /non·spe·cif·ic/ (non?spi-sif´ik) 1. not due to any single known cause. 2. not directed against a particular agent, but rather having a general effect. nonspecific 1. nondiscrimination policy already," said Kim Mills, education director for the Washington, D.C.-based gay rights group Human Rights Campaign. Exxon and Mobil merged in 1999, at which time Exxon substituted its nondiscrimination policy for Mobil's, which had specifically included sexual orientation. |
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