PayPal withdraws planned N.C. expansion due to anti-gay law


, USATODAY

SAN FRANCISCO — PayPal is canceling its planned North Carolina expansion due to the state's new anti-gay law, just two weeks after making the initial announcement.
On March 18, North Carolina governor Pat McCroryannounced that San Jose, Calif.-based PayPal would build a new global operations center in Charlotte, N.C. The center would have employed 400 people.
At the time, PayPal's senior vice president of global operations John McCabe said, "with its strong ties to the financial community and technology savvy talent pool, Charlotte is an ideal fit for this new operations center.”
Then on March 23 North Carolina passed a sweeping law that prevents cities and counties from passing rules preventing discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. 
On Tuesday, PayPal CEO and president Dan Schulman announced that the electronic payment company was withdrawing its plans to build an operations center in the state because the new law perpetuates discrimination and violates the values and principles that he said are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.
"This decision reflects PayPal’s deepest values and our strong belief that every person has the right to be treated equally, and with dignity and respect. These principles of fairness, inclusion and equality are at the heart of everything we seek to achieve and stand for as a company. And they compel us to take action to oppose discrimination," Schulman said in a statement.
The company said it regretted that it wouldn't be a part of the Charlotte community but that because it was a company "committed to the principle that everyone deserves to live without fear of discrimination simply for being who they are," it could not become an employer in North Carolina.
Locating in a state "where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable," Schulman said.
The company is now looking for an alternative location for its operations center.
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