A month after the same group made similar suggestions during Costco’s annual meeting, it was just rejected. Despite fierce opposition from critics, similar results are expected at Apple’s annual meeting.
As Costco has done, Apple firmly supports diversity and inclusion efforts, and its management considers good business awareness.
But the National Center for Public Policy Research’s proposal attacked Apple’s diversity commitment because it didn’t match the recent court ruling and said the plans have left the Cupertino, California-based company suffering potential lawsuits against alleged discrimination. Attack. The team estimates that about 50,000 Apple employees can file cases against Apple without specifying that it reaches that number.
In its proposal, the National Center for Public Policy Research said: “It is obvious that DEI poses litigation, reputation and financial risks to the company and thus brings financial risks to its shareholders and, therefore, further risks for the company to fail to comply with its fiduciary obligations. . “Last week, when Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a federal lawsuit against the target, accusing the retailer of its recently scaled DEI program alienated many consumers and weakened shareholders’ Sales, which is the ghost of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a federal lawsuit to create potential legal trouble. In a rebuttal against the anti-DEI proposal, Apple said its plan is an integral part of a culture that boosted the company’s current market value by $3.7 trillion, higher than any other business in the world.
“We believe that the way we behave is as crucial to Apple’s success as manufacturing the best products in the world,” the company said in a statement against the proposal. “We seek to comply with applicable laws and regulations with ethics, honesty and honesty.” Do business.”
In its last diversity and inclusion report released in 2022, Apple revealed that nearly three-quarters of its global workforce are made up of white and Asian employees. At that moment, nearly two-thirds of the employees were men.
Over the years, other major technology companies have reported mainly white and Asian men, especially in high-paying engineering jobs – a trend that has prompted the industry to pursue efforts to diversify to a large extent.
