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Walmart created its DEI initiative after the 2020 murder of George Floyd when many businesses pledged to make their workforces and their leadership better reflect the diverse communities they serve.
Walmart also said it would pull out of the Human Rights Campaign’s yearly benchmark index measuring LGBTQ+ inclusion, and would no longer give any preferential treatment to minority-owned suppliers.
Shares are up 4.6% since Starbuck revealed Walmart's DEI change on X (Walmart did not release an official statement). The stock is up a whopping 77% in 2024 after it posted a string of earnings ...
Walmart said this policy was to protect the workers and the store's contents in high-crime areas and acknowledges that some employees were inconvenienced in some instances for up to an hour as they had trouble locating a manager with the key. However, fire officials confirm that at no time were fire exits locked or employees blocked from escape.
The changes, confirmed by Walmart on Monday, are sweeping and include everything from not renewing a five-year commitment for an equity racial center set up in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd, to pulling out of a prominent gay rights index. And when it comes to race or gender, Walmart won’t be giving priority treatment to suppliers.
Even so, Walmart's decision comes amid growing pressure from conservatives to halt corporate DEI policies, which ramped up after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in June 2023 ending affirmative ...
BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (Reuters) -Walmart will pay bonuses to its U.S. hourly store workers, including those at its pharmacy and Vision Center stores, the retailer said on Wednesday, in a move that ...
The legal basis for the Schedule Policy/Career appointment is a section of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978), which exempts from civil service protections federal employees "whose position has been determined to be of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making or policy-advocating character". The provision had been little noticed and ...