The shift follows a measure signed by US president Barack Obama who last year stated that companies must plainly include such a non-discrimination clause in order to compete for federal contracts.
"ExxonMobil’s US Equal Employment Opportunity and Harassment in the Workplace policies have been updated to include sexual orientation and gender identity, which is consistent with ExxonMobil’s long-standing practice of listing enumerated protected classes as defined by federal law," a spokesman told Upstream.
"ExxonMobil’s
