Pepsico Inc. It is the most recent company that decides to cut its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, as the president’s impulse Donald Trump To eliminate this type of policies extends through US corporations.
The company will abandon the objectives of representing the workforce, it will no longer have a director dedicated to policies Dei (Diversity, equity and inclusion), and will expand its diversity program of suppliers to include all small businesses, among other changes, according to a memorandum of the executive director, Ramón Laguarta.
He said the company had been perfecting its approach during the last year. “To ensure that it is aligned with our long -term commercial strategy, which responds to local markets and that focuses on the principles that drive sustainable growth”
The content of the memorando, published on Thursday by the anti-dei activist Robby Starbuckwas confirmed by a Pepsico spokesman.
Companies from Amazon.com Inc. to Walmart Inc. have announced changes in their DEI programs in recent months, as activists increased pressure against diversity initiatives. This trend has accelerated under Trump, whose administration threatened to initiate criminal investigations against companies with POLICIOS DEI “illegal”
The United States government is cutting thousands of jobs as it eliminates employees related to the culture of diversity and inclusion and presses government contractors to do the same.
With Bloomberg information
Source: Gestion
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