Equal Opportunity

ING U.S.'s view on Equal Opportunity and Diversity. We realize we must reflect our diverse client base to be more sensitive to their needs and to be able to best adapt to their wishes. We promote a greater understanding of diversity and inclusion to create an environment wherein everyone has the opportunity to fully participate in achieving business and personal success and is valued for his or her distinctiveness.

ING U.S. understands the need to form diverse teams throughout the organization and to attract employees with a wide range of backgrounds and points of view. For us, diversity and inclusion is more than hiring people with a diverse background. It's about creating an inclusive culture, acknowledging and respecting differences. ING U.S.'s management is committed to promoting this. We aspire to create an atmosphere that is exciting, energizing and intellectually stimulating. We believe this can lead to better business decisions and innovation. In the end, diversity can create a better company for the good of shareholders, employees and customers alike.

Further, we are proud to note that we aggressively enforce our harassment and antidiscrimination workplace policies. And we provide ongoing diversity training to our managers that cover new focus areas such as sexual orientation and gender expression in the workplace.

ING U.S. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information on positions with ING U.S., please visit our careers page.

Suppliers

ING U.S. deals with its business partners according to a set of high ethical standards and has strict procurement policies on child labor, environmental issues, health and safety regulations and supplier diversity.

We are firmly committed to providing opportunities for equal access to all qualified minority and women owned enterprises (M/WBEs) wishing to do business with us. In addition, we are committed to providing opportunities for equal access to all certified Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) owned enterprises. Doing so enhances our relationships with current customers while also improving our ability to attract and retain new business within and outside of target markets. ING U.S. is proud to provide opportunities to qualifying businesses in our efforts toward reaching a goal of 5% of controllable spend.

ING U.S. is proud to provide opportunities to qualifying businesses in our efforts toward reaching a goal of 5% of controllable spend within 5 years.

Procurement

Procurement staff has to comply with the ING U.S. Procurement Code of Conduct as well as the Business Principles that all staff follow. This code prohibits the acceptance of personal gifts or benefits in any form, requires confidentiality with respect to quotations and proposals from suppliers and sets strict boundaries for contacts and relations with suppliers. Procurement staff must sign the code every year to remind them of its importance.

Our Reciprocity Policy

Many of our suppliers are also clients of ING U.S. Our reciprocity policy states that when a customer or potential customer wants to become a supplier, this company will be assessed only on the basis of price and quality and not on its customer status.