EEO and Diversity Efforts by US Companies with Overseas Operations

A member was interested in the EEO and Diversity efforts of US companies with overseas operations. They were trying to determine how companies with overseas operations handle concepts such as EEO and Diversity and corrective action/discipline; how they impose/monitor internal company policy and how they track employee data.

Of the members that responded, all were US Companies with employees working outside the United States. Their US based employee count ranged between 3,500-134,000 and the non US based employee count ranged between 2,000-500,000.

Of the 5 responding companies, all of them have employees in Asia, Canada and Europe. Four respondents have employees in Africa, three have employees in the Middle East and two have employees in Australia, Russia or Latin America.

Three companies responded that they apply US policies overseas regarding, equal employment opportunities, hiring and promotion, corrective action and dispute resolution. Two companies responded that they apply US policies overseas regarding diversity and inclusion and reasonable accommodation.

Three companies reported that they have local-country policies at non US locations covering equal employment opportunity. At least one company reported that they have local-country policies at their non-U.S. locations covering affirmative action, diversity and inclusion and corrective action. Two companies have local-country policies covering dispute resolution.

Most companies reported that non-US policies are administered by local teams. Three companies use their US computer systems to record non-US employment activity. Three companies have non-US diversity strategies that differ from their US diversity strategy and two reported they are the same.

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