Walmart (WMT) was in the midst of controversy after it opted to follow a growing trend in corporate America. In December, the retail giant cut several initiatives focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
A group of more than 30 shareholders representing $266 billion in funds has asked Walmart Inc. to explain its business case for retreating on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, describing the decision as “disheartening.
McDonald's announced earlier this week that the company would end some initiatives centered on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.
The fast food giant joins companies like Walmart, Ford, Harley-Davidson ... Subscribe to our Newsletter today At the same time, however, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation reports that the 1,449 companies rated in this year’s CEI represent a 5 percent ...
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has sent a letter to Walmart, signed by 12 other state’s attorney generals, questioning the company’s pullback from its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.
Pushback against the concept of diversity, equity and inclusion has led several major companies dropping their efforts to embrace the progressive ideology that encourages a focus on race, gender and
A national rights group says more U.S. companies are providing strong benefits and protections to LGBTQ+ employees despite conservative activists pressuring high-profile brands to stop participating in the organization's annual workplace report card.
McDonald’s is among the latest major companies to adjust its approach following the 2023 Supreme Court ruling and growing conservative opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Last year,
Survey by the Williams Institute found nearly half of LGBTQ+ workers reported experiencing discrimination or harassment at some point in their careers.
It was late 2022 when hundreds of lawyers across America joined in a virtual Lord’s Prayer for Jeremy Tedesco and his mission to promote Christian values in corporate America.
Organizations including Walmart, Lowe’s and Meta, have announced they would scale back their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
When this groundbreaking program was still a bold but untested idea in the early 2000s, Jimmy Carter and The Carter Center brought expertise in conflict resolution and Carter’s prestige to the farmworkers’ campaign for human rights.