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General Motors reflects the world in its multicultural workforce who are a critical link between the workplace and the marketplace. Moreover, employees' talents and diverse perspectives help GM drive innovation, understand the global marketplace, develop better products and deliver better services.

GM is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. In addition to GM's commitment to comply with state and federal laws protecting individual civil rights, the company has a widely distributed written policy on equal employment opportunity and harassment. Harassment based on age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity/expression is a violation of this policy. Harassment should be understood to mean a single incident or a pattern of behavior where the purpose, or the effect, is to create a hostile, offensive, or intimidating workplace environment.

Harassment may encompass a wide range of behaviors, which include, but are not limited to, derogatory comments that are gender-based (inclusive of behavior directed at an individual’s gender identity/expression), racial, religious, sexual, ethnic or disability-based in nature. Harassment also includes unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. The policy clearly states there will not be any retaliation against employees who bring harassment to the attention of appropriate management.

For more data on regional lost work day and recordable injury rates, please download the 2005-2006 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Report's Workplace chapter (PDF).

GM’s Diversity Vision is: “An environment of inclusion that naturally enables General Motors’ employees, suppliers, dealers and communities to fully contribute in the pursuit of total customer enthusiasm.” To learn more about GM’s Diversity Initiatives, visit the Diversity Initiatives section.