An increasing number of reputable companies reduced or set aside initiatives for diversity, capital and inclusion that are A large part of corporate America Confirmed after a protest that followed the police in Minneapolis by killing George Floyd, Black, 2020.
Dei policies are usually intended for the exploitation of systemic obstacles to the progression of historically marginalized groups in certain fields or roles. Critics claim that some educational, government and business programs are discriminating because they stand out for participants on the basis of factors such as race, sex and sexual orientation. They aimed at corporate sponsorships, a group for affinity under the guidance of employees, programs aimed at managing contracts for minorities or companies owned by women and goals that some companies founded to increase the representation of minorities in the leadership ranks.
Although decisions on employment or promotion based on race or gender are illegal according to the title VII Act on Civil Rights of 1964. In most circumstances, companies say they do not. Instead, they say that they strive for diversification of their workforce over time through policies such as spreading the pool of candidates for open jobs.
In a letter sent to the employees, Pepsico Ramon Laguarta CEO said the company will no longer set goals to represent minorities in its control roles or suppliers. The company will also match its sponsorships with events and groups that promote business growth, he said.
The Goldman Sachs investment company has confirmed that it is withdrawing a request that has forced the iPo clients to involve women and members of minority groups in its committee.
“As a result of legal development relating to the demands of the Committee’s diversity, we have completed our formal policy of the Committee diversity,” said spokesman Goldman Sachs Ue -the associated press. “We still believe that successful committees benefit from different backgrounds and perspectives and we will encourage them to use this approach.”
Goldman Sachs said he would continue to have a placement service that connects his clients with various candidates who will serve in their committees.
Google
Google abolished naked He set up in 2020 to increase the representation of under -represented groups among the leading team of the company by 30% within five years. In the record to the employees, the company also announced that other changes in the response to Trump’s executive order focused on the prohibition of federal performers to implement the dei practices that represent “illegal discrimination”.
Google’s mother’s mother’s mother companion also signaled that things change in their annual report of 10 K submitted to the Securities Commission. The report has given up a sentence of the boilers he has used since 2020, stating that the company “dedicated to the development of diversity, equality and involvement of a part of everything we do and the growing of the workforce that is representative for users we serve.”
Goal
The seller said that the changes of the “belonging to bilkseye” would include completing a the program that established To help employees of blacks build a meaningful career, improve the experience of black customers and promote Companies owned by black After Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, where Target has its headquarters.
Goal, which manages nearly 2,000 stores Over the country and employs more than 400,000 people, he said he would also conclude diversity, capital and inclusion or dei goals he had previously set up In three -year cycles.
The goals included the employment and promotion of more women and members of racial minority groups and employment of diverse suppliers, including companies owned by people in color, women, LGBTQ+ people, veterans and people with disabilities.
Target will also no longer participate in surveys intended to evaluate the effectiveness of its actions, including the annual index composed of human rights campaign, the National LGBTQ+ National Organization. Target also said it would further evaluate corporate partnerships to ensure that they were connected directly with business goals, but refused to share the details.
Meta platform
Facebook and Instagram home company said it was get rid of its program of diversity, equality and inclusions, which contained policies for employment, training and selecting suppliers.
Like other companies that announced similar changes before the target, the giant social media said that the program was examined by The decision of the Supreme Court in July 2023, which increased the certificate action in higher education.
Listing an internal letter sent to employees, the Axios news website reported on Menlo Park, California Technology Gigant, said that he would no longer have a team focused on diversity and involvement and that he would “focus on how to apply FER and consistent practices that They relieve bias of bias for everyone, regardless of your background. “Change means that the company will also end its” diverse access approach “to employment, which included in view of the diverse set of candidates for each open position.
Amazon
Amazon said he stopped some of his dei programs, though he did not determine which one. In the Memorandum of December 16, to employees, Candi Castleberry, Senior Executive Director of Human Resources, said that the company “completed outdated programs and materials, and we want to complete it by the end of 2024.”
“We also know that there will always be individuals or teams who continue to do well -meaning things that do not align with our approach to the whole company, and we may not always see that. But we’ll stay, “she wrote.
Instead of “having individual groups of building programs,” Castleberry said, Amazon “focuses on programs with proven outcomes – and we also want to encourage a truly more inclusive culture.”
McDonald’s
Four years after starting a stimulus for more diversity in their ranks, McDonald’s He said earlier this month to end some of his diversity practices.
On January 6, McDonald’s said he would pull certain goals to achieve diversity at higher leadership levels. He also intends to end a program that encourages their suppliers to develop training on diversity and increase the number of members of the minority group represented in their own leadership ranks.
McDonald’s said he would also stop “external research”. IN burger giant He did not explain, but several other companies suspended participating in an annual HRC study.
IN An open letter Employees and franchisees, McDonalds’ higher leadership team said he was still dedicated to involvement and believed that it was a diverse workforce to a competitive advantage.
Walmart
The world’s largest seller Confirmed in November In order not to renovate this, a five-year commitment to racial capital center set in 2020. After police were killed by George Floyd and would stop participating in the Corporate Equality Index of the HRC.
Walmart also said that he would better monitor their third party market to ensure that the items that are sold there do not include products aimed at LGBTQ+ minors, including chest binders intended for transgender young people.
In addition, the company will no longer consider a race and gender as a lakmus test to improve diversity when offering suppliers’ contracts and will not collect demographic data when determining the eligibility of financing these supports.
Ford
Executive Director Jim Farley sent a letter to employees of car manufacturers in August, presenting changes in Dei policies, including the decision to stop participating in the Corporate Equality Index of HRC.
FordHe wrote, staring at his politics for a year. The company does not use employment quotas or does not associate compensation with specific goals of diversity, but it remains dedicated to “encouraging a safe and inclusive job,” Farley said.
“We will continue to invest our efforts and resources to take care of their customers, our team and our communities, as opposed to publicly commenting on many polarizing questions of the day,” the letter said.
Lowe’s
In August, Lowevo executive guidance He said that the company started “reviewing” its programs after the Supreme Court’s affirmative action and decided to combine its employees’ resources groups in one umbrella. Previously, the company had “individual groups that represent different parts of our associated population.”
The seller will also no longer participate in the HRC Index, and will stop sponsoring and participation in events, such as the festival and parade, which are outside his business areas.
Harley-Davidson
In the post on Xu August, Harley-Davidson He said that the company would review all sponsorships and organizations it is associated with and that everything will have to be centrally approved. The company said that the company would focus solely on the growth of motorcycle sports and retaining its loyal riding community, in addition to supporting the first answers, active military members and veterans.
Motorcycle manufacturer said he would no longer participate in the ranking of equality in the workplace composed by the HRC, and that his training would be associated with the needs of business and absent socially motivated content.
Harley-Davidson also said that there was no employment quota and that he would no longer have suppliers’ consumption goals.
Brown forman
Jack Daniels’s home company also retired from participating in the Corporate Equality Index of HRC, among other changes. Her leaders sent E -Stand to employees in August, saying that the company launched its diversity and inclusion strategy in 2019, but since then “the world has developed, our business has changed, and the legal and external landscape has dramatically moved.”
The company announced that it would remove the quantitative ambition of the supplier’s labor and diversity, to ensure that the incentives and goals of employees are related to business performance and review programs for consistency with revised strategy.
“Brown-form still stimulates an inclusive work environment where everyone is welcome, dearly and in the opportunity to bring their best to work,” said spokeswoman Elizabeth Conway in the email.
John Deere
IN manufacturer of agricultural equipment He said in July that he would no longer sponsor the events of “social or cultural consciousness” and that he would revise all training materials “to ensure the absence of socially motivated messages” in accordance with federal and local laws.
Moline, John Deere based in Illinois, added “The existence of a quota diversity and the identification of the pronoun were never and are not a company policy.” But it noted that it would continue to “monitor and progress” the diversity of the company.
Tractor supply
Seller In June He said he ended up a series of corporate diversity and climate efforts, which came after weeks of internet conservative aversion against a rural seller.
The tractor supply said that she would eliminate all her role of Dei during the withdrawal of current Dei goals. The company added that “it will stop the sponsorship of non-free activities”, such as the pride or voting campaign festival, and no longer tolerate data for the HRC Index.
Brentwood, based in Tennessee, which sells products in the range from agricultural equipment to pet supply, she also said she would withdraw from the goals of the carbon show, instead of “focusing on our efforts to preserve land and water”.
IN National Association of Farmers of Blacks He invited the President and CEO of Tractor Supply to deviate shortly after the company announcement.
