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Cloud-based software giant Salesforce has told its thousands of employees that it will help relocate them out of Texas if they are concerned about getting reproductive health care due to the state’s draconian new anti-abortion law.
“As a company, we stand by all of our women at Salesforce and everywhere,” CNBC read a Slack message to employees on Friday.
The San Francisco-based company hasn’t taken a specific position on the country’s most restrictive law, criminalizing abortion after about six weeks – before most people even realize they’re pregnant.
However, the statement said, “These are incredibly personal issues that affect many of us directly – women in particular… However, if you have concerns about access to reproductive health care in your state, Salesforce will help you relocate you and your members immediate family. “
Salesforce Founder and CEO Marc Benioff later tweeted a link on the CNBC story, adding, “Ohana, if you want to move we’re here to help you leave TX. Your choice. “Ohana is a Hawaiian word and means family.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) fired back: “Welcome to California.”
Ohana, if you want to move we’re here to help you leave TX. Your choice.❤️https: //t.co/y5IKpm5fNs
– Marc Benioff (@Benioff) September 11, 2021
Welcome to California. https://t.co/PFbwklpOoT
– Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 11, 2021
Around 2,000 employees work at the Salesforce Dallas location, one of Salesforce’s 16 offices. Salesforce employs around 56,000 people worldwide.
Benioff announced in 2015 that Salesforce had “dramatically” reduced its investment in Indiana due to the state freedom of religion Restoration Act, which customers and workers feared would allow companies to deny services to LGBTQ people. However, Salesforce increased its investments in the state the following year after the then administration. Mike Pence (R) has been forced to sign a clarification prohibiting such discrimination.
Salesforce is the newest company to break Texas law. The CEO of Dallas-based dating app company Match, which also owns Tinder, is setting up a fund for Texas workers forced to leave the state for abortions. And Austin dating app Bumble funds six organizations that fight for reproductive rights and help women.
In addition, ride-hailing companies Lyft and Uber have pledged to pay legal fees for any drivers caught in Texas law for taking people to abortion clinics. Under the new law, Abortion Vigilantes can collect a $ 10,000 bounty if they successfully sue anyone who “supports or promotes” abortion care, including drivers.
Directly on @logangreen – Drivers shouldn’t be at the risk of getting people where they want to go. Team @Uber is also there and pays the legal fees in the same way. Thanks for the nudge. https://t.co/85LhOUctSc
– dara khosrowshahi (@dkhos) September 3, 2021
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott (R) claimed in an interview last week that the state’s right-wing politics lured business owners to Texas, although it wasn’t clear whether it included female business owners.
A Forbes poll found that two-thirds of college-educated workers would not live in a state with such a restrictive anti-abortion law.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Texas on Thursday, arguing that its new anti-abortion law is against the constitution.
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