U. S. Steel Recognized as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” with Top Disability Equality Index® Score
Fourth Consecutive Year U. S. Steel Has Earned This Distinction
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U. S. Steel (NYSE: X) announced today it has once again received a top score of 100 on the Disability Equality Index®, the leading corporate benchmarking tool for disability equality, and earned its fourth consecutive recognition as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion.” By annually completing the Index, U. S. Steel demonstrates its commitment to strengthening inclusion across its organization and enhancing what it believes is a distinct business advantage: the ability to leverage the skills of people who identify as having a disability.
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“Earning our fourth consecutive recognition as a ‘Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion’ sends a powerful message that U. S. Steel’s commitment to realizing full inclusion across our business is unwavering,” said U. S. Steel President and CEO, David B. Burritt. “Achieving this recognition makes clear that we are determined to advance disability inclusion across the broader corporate mainstream. To do so at the one year mark of my having signed Disability:IN’s CEO Letter on Disability Inclusion makes it all the more meaningful.”
Maintaining workplaces where every team member feels included and valued, safe and protected, seen and heard is an integral part of U. S. Steel’s Culture of Caring. Its organization-wide, inclusive culture is supported and enhanced by employee resource groups (ERGs) like SteelABILITY, which not only drives increased awareness and understanding of disability-related issues but has also made invaluable contributions to the company’s four recognitions as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion.”
“We participate in the Disability Equality Index as a way of measuring and validating the success of our efforts to be wholly inclusive of people with disabilities,” said Mona Dine, General Manager, Corporate Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer. “We are pleased to share our top score of 100 and commend the efforts of our SteelABILITY ERG; both enhance our reputation as a company with DE&I unmistakably woven into our business strategy.”
Annually, the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the nation’s largest disability rights organization, and Disability:IN, the global business disability inclusion network, jointly deploy their index, a comprehensive assessment that helps companies build, measure, and earn recognition for the tangible actions they are taking to achieve disability inclusion. Created with support from an advisory committee comprised of diverse business leaders, policy experts, and disability advocates, the index helps businesses make a positive impact on the unemployment/underemployment of people with disabilities and create long term value for employees and shareholders.
About U. S. Steel
Founded in 1901, United States Steel Corporation is a leading steel producer. With an unwavering focus on safety, the Company’s customer-centric Best for All® strategy is advancing a more secure, sustainable future for U. S. Steel and its stakeholders. With a renewed emphasis on innovation, U. S. Steel serves the automotive, construction, appliance, energy, containers, and packaging industries with high value-added steel products such as U. S. Steel’s proprietary XG3™ advanced high-strength steel. The Company also maintains competitively advantaged iron ore production and has an annual raw steelmaking capability of 22.4 million net tons. U. S. Steel is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with world-class operations across the United States and in Central Europe. For more information, please visit www.ussteel.com.
About the Disability Equality Index®
The Disability Equality Index has become the leading independent, third-party resource for the annual benchmarking of corporate disability inclusion policies and programs, and is now trusted by more than 70% of the United States Fortune 100 and nearly half of the Fortune 500. Such companies must increasingly consider how emerging global reporting directives and stakeholder expectations surrounding social and corporate governance factors impact their operational, cultural, reputational and financial performance.
The Disability Equality Index is an objective, reflective, forward-thinking, and confidential disability rating tool designed to assist business in advancing inclusion practices. It is a comprehensive benchmark that helps companies build a roadmap of measurable, tangible actions across five scored categories: Culture & Leadership, Enterprise-Wide Access, Employment Practices, Community Engagement, and Supplier Diversity. Participating companies receive a score, on a scale of zero (0) to 100, with those scoring 80 or higher earning the distinction of “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion” for the benchmark year.
Findings from a two-year Global Disability Equality Index pilot informed the launch of a scored benchmark that opened in 2024 to seven new countries in addition to the United States. These include: Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. Now in its 10th year, the Disability Equality Index has grown nearly 7x since 2015, expanding from 80 companies in its first year to 542 in 2024. Collectively, the 2024 edition received 753 submissions spanning the eight benchmarked countries.
About the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)
AAPD is a convener, connector, and catalyst for change, increasing the political and economic power for people with disabilities. As a national cross-disability rights organization AAPD advocates for full civil rights for the 60+ million Americans with disabilities. Learn more at: www.aapd.com.
About Disability:IN®
Disability:IN is a global organization driving disability inclusion and equality in business. More than 500 corporations partner with Disability:IN to create long-term business and social impact through the world’s most comprehensive disability inclusion benchmarking and reporting tool, the Disability Equality Index; best-in-class conferences and programs; expert counsel and engagement; and public policy leadership. Join us at disabilityin.org/AreYouIN #AreYouIN
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