Lionsgate was planning to shoot a pilot for Crushed, a new Hulu show, in Charlotte. PayPal is not the only employer to pull out of North Carolina. While PayPal seeks alternative locations for its operation center, it will also work with the LGBT community in North Carolina to overturn HB2. “As a company that is committed to the principle that everyone deserves to live without fear of discrimination simply for being who they are, becoming an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,” Schulman said on Tuesday. PayPal has also publicly endorsed the Equality Act. In the past, PayPal was named as a best place to work for LGBT equality by the Human Rights Campaign. In fact, the City of Charlotte is causing more problems by trying to solve a problem that does not exist.”Īfter the HB2 was passed into a law, PayPal joined companies like Google, Apple, American Airlines, Marriott and Bank of America, which employs 15,000 people in North Carolina, in denouncing the new law. “I encourage you to convince your colleagues to focus on issues most important to our citizens and this proposed change is not one of them. “This action of allowing a person with male anatomy, for example, to use a female restroom or locker room will most likely cause immediate State legislative intervention which I would support as governor,” North Carolina’s Governor Pat McCrory wrote in an email to the city council members at the time. It was in response to that that the state government introduced House Bill 2 (HB2) to overturn the ordinance. One of the rights covered by the ordinance was the ability of transgender members of community to use the bathroom of the sex they identified with.
But we do regret that we will not have the opportunity to be a part of the Charlotte community and to count as colleagues the skilled and talented people of the region,” Schulman said.īack in February, Charlotte city council passed a non-discrimination ordinance that extended rights to the LGBT community. “Our decision is a clear and unambiguous one. As a result, PayPal will not move forward with our planned expansion into Charlotte.”Īccording to him, PayPal believes that every person has the right to be treated equally and with respect, which compels the company to “take action to oppose discrimination”. “The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.
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