Barilla Pasta Launches Massive Damage Control Effort To Be More LGBT-Inclusive

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13. The actions are useless unless they are driven to the very lowest levels

of the company. When companies hold line managers responsible for insuring fairness in the workplace and those companies put in place mechanisms for verifying compliance by all managers, then I think racism, sexism, anti-Gay actions and age discrimination will be on their way to the deep cold graves they, and the people that utilize them in the workplace, deserve.

Barilla is doing the classic corporate song and dance. Put in place some well paid member of an oppressed group who knows NOTHING about company operations, then put out a non-ending string of press releases before announcing the problem "cured". Discrimination in the workplace is a constant scourge that requires constant vigilance and robust systems for detecting it and eliminating the people responsible for it and those that did nothing to correct it from the company.