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Walmart reverses course on DEI policies
Fox News contributor Joe Concha joins “Fox & Friends First” to discuss Walmart withdrawing its DEI policies, Alec Baldwin claims Americans aren’t informed, and the CEO of ‘Axios answered Elon Musk about the changing media landscape.
FIRST ON FOX: A new report analyzed company statements, annual reports and other publicly available documents from all Fortune 500 companies and found that virtually all have kept their commitments to “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) despite the tendency of private companies to renounce them. compromises amid growing criticism.
walmart, last week, it became the latest major company to reverse its DEI commitments. The private sector’s pushback from these commitments, which include hiring practices based on race or other preferential treatment provided based on someone’s immutable characteristics, has been strong enough to spur a cohort of 49 people. Democratic deputies in the House of Representatives to write a letter a few weeks ago to the nation’s Fortune 1000 companies, urging them not to give in to pressure to dismantle their DEI commitments. Lawmakers argued that these commitments help provide a fairer shot at the American Dream for “everyone.”
The effort to ensure that “everyone” gets a fair chance is one of the main reasons why Walmart decided to start pulling back on some of its commitments.
“Our purpose, to help people save money and live better, has been at our core since our founding 62 years ago and continues to guide us today,” said Joe Pennington, director of the global press office at Walmart, on Fox News Digital. “We’ve been on a journey and we know we’re not perfect, but every decision comes from a place of wanting to foster a sense of belonging, open doors to opportunity for all of our associates, customers and suppliers, and be a Walmart. for everyone.”
Although pressure on private companies to drop their DEI commitments has produced some changes, 485 of the nation’s 500 largest companies continue to maintain some form of DEI commitment. according to a new report of the right-wing Heritage Foundation.
The researchers spent weeks going through various documents and communications from all these companies and developed an easy-to-use database so readers could see the commitments for themselves.
Jonthan Butcher, the lead author of the report, told Fox News Digital that he thought public pressure he is very influential in getting private companies to drop what he called DEI’s discriminatory commitments. Sources familiar with Walmart’s decision to roll back its DEI policies indicated that public pressure, in addition to feedback from customers and associates, was one aspect that spurred some of the company’s changes.
“I think when the pressure has been applied one by one … companies recognize that when they’re called out, they have no way to defend themselves and say, ‘Well, what we’re doing is actually healthy.'” No one he’s tried to say that,” Butcher said. “Instead, they’ve simply pushed back. And appropriately so.”
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Criticism of DEI’s workplace commitments intensified after the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling last year that banned racial preferences in college admissions.
Some of the top companies highlighted in Butcher’s report include Nike and UnitedHealth Group.
Nike, for example, was found to have a page on your website on “representation and pay” which states, “NIKE is focused on its workforce representation, starting with women globally and racial and ethnic minorities in the United States.” Meanwhile, UnitedHealth Group claims about its Web page “People and culture”. that the company strives to provide patients with “culturally relevant care” and seeks to “advance a diverse healthcare workforce.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to both Nike and UnitedHealth Group for comment, but did not hear back.
Butcher ultimately said he believes Americans are waking up to the racially discriminatory elements of DEI practices, noting that the goal of his research is to continue to build on that momentum.
