Apple shareholders vote against pressure to abolish the diversity policy | Business and economy news
The proposal was called on to Apple to follow the litany of high companies that recently seized initiatives for diversity, capital and inclusion (Dei).
Apple’s shareholders distracted an attempt to pressure the technological trendsetter to join President Donald Trump pressure to purify corporate programs for the diversification of the workforce.
AND proposal created by the National Public Policy Research Center – Self -written conservative research center -At of Apple to follow the litany of tall companies that have withdrawn from the initiative for diversity, capital and inclusion (dei), which are currently at the intersection of Trump administration.
After a brief presentation on Anti-Dei’s proposal, Apple announced that the shareholders had rejected him without discovering votes. Preliminary results will be listed in regulatory submission later on Tuesday.
The outcome revenge on the decision of the Apple Management that he was behind his diversity, although Trump asked the US Ministry of Justice to consider whether these types of programs discriminated against some employees whose races or gender were not aligned with the objectives of the initiative.
However, the Apple Tim Cook CEO has held a cordial relationship with Trump since its first term on Office, an alliance that has so far helped the company tariffs on its iPhones made in China. After Cook and Trump met last week, Apple posted on Monday Will invest $ 500 billion in the US And create 20,000 more jobs over the next five years – an obligation that the president applauded.
Dental voting on Tuesday came a month after the same group introduced a similar proposal during Costc’s annual meeting, only to have it predominantly rejected.
This snub did not discourage the National Public Policy Research Center for facing Apple about its Dei program in a pre-recorded presentation of Stefan Padfield, the project director of the free Enterprise Think project, who claimed that “forced diversity is bad for business.”
In the presentation, Padfield attacked Apple’s obligations for the diversity because they were in accordance with the recent judgments of the court and said that programs were exhibiting Cupertino, California, a company on a potential lawsuits for alleged discrimination. He cited Trump’s administration as one of Apple’s potential legal opponents.
“The shift of the vibra is clear: Dei is out and he is a merit,” Padfield said in the presentation.
‘Culture of belonging’
The spectrum of potential legal troubles increased last week when Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a federal lawsuit against Target, stating that the recently scalted Seller Seller Program was alienated by many consumers and undermined to the detriment of shareholders.
Just as Costco does, Apple claims that encouraging a variety of labor has good business meaning.
But Cook admitted that Apple may have to adapt its diversity program “How the Legal Lands change”, while still trying to maintain a culture that helped to increase the company to its current market value of $ 3.7 trillion – greater than any other Business in the world.
“We will continue to create an affiliation culture,” Cook told shareholders during the meeting.
In your own Report on the Last Schedule and Inclusion Published in 2022Apple revealed that nearly three quarters of its global workforce consisted of white and Asian employees. Almost two -thirds of their employees were men.
Other main technological companies have been reporting to the employment of mostly white and Asian men for years, especially in highly paid engineering-tendency that has encouraged the industry to deal mainly with unsuccessful efforts on diversification.
