However, the “new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture”, the company said in a statement.
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California-based PayPal announced that it would cancel plans for new global operations center in Charlotte, a facility that would have created over 400 jobs, PayPal claimed. “And they compel us to take action to oppose discrimination”, the statement continued.
He said PayPal regrets that it will not have the opportunity to become part of the Charlotte community and work with the region’s many talented people.
PayPal’s announcement came days after Lionsgate made a decision to move the filming for the pilot episode of a comedy series to Canada.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory sparked an outcry and opposition from gay and transgender rights groups last week when he signed a law invalidating a Charlotte ordinance that allowed transgender people to use the restroom corresponding to their gender identity.
“We have pretty limited travel at this point in time anyway”, Baker said Tuesday after testifying on an economic development bill. According to the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, PayPal would have invested over $3.6 million in Mecklenburg County by the end of 2017. The new law pre-empts anti-discrimination ordinances passed by local municipalities and requires transgender individuals to use bathrooms assigned to their birth-gender. “These are new, better paying jobs North Carolina won’t get because Governor McCrory has put his political ideology above all else”. Elias and Cooper, who has said he would not defend the law against lawsuits, each issued statements calling for its repeal.
“We invite Bank of America to consider moving to a state that shares its social values and supports its LGBT workforce”, Lesser said.
“Governor Phil Bryant adds his name to a list of disgraced Southern governors by signing this hateful and discriminatory bill into law”, said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization.
After taking several questions on the topic, McCrory ended the question-and-answer session and went into the school’s administrative office, avoiding reporters who waited in front of the school to ask additional questions.
Red Ventures, a data marketing and technology company based in Fort Mill, South Carolina, is reconsidering an expansion of 500 jobs planned this year at its Charlotte location because of the passage of the law, CEO Ric Elias said in a tweet Tuesday.
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“If a corporation wanting to do business in North Carolina does not see the worth of our children in the same light, then I wish them well as they do business somewhere else”.
