Target, social media owner WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, eliminated their programs diversity and pointed to legal and policy “changes” in this area in the United States.
End of programs diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) Meta, announced to employees and reported by Axios, comes shortly after the company suspended its screening program and amid the sector’s rapprochement with the ideas of US President-elect Donald Trump.
Meta HR Manager Janelle Gayle wrote in an internal message to the U.S. Supreme Court decisions that they indicate “a shift in how the courts are approaching DEI” and the “burden” of the concept as “a practice that treats certain groups preferentially over others“.
“The legal and policy landscape around diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing,” Gayle emphasizes, asserting that Mark Zuckerberg’s company strives to “serve all” and that “opportunities should not be given or denied because of defensive characteristics.”
Previously, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta abolished representation quotas for women and ethnic minorities.
Specifically, Meta will abolish its DEI team and refocus some of its associated employee and supplier recruitment practices, after previously eliminating representation quotas for women and ethnic minorities, it said.
These changes occur after Mark Zuckerberg’s approach to Trumpwhich he seemed to have disowned years ago, but which he met after his election victory and to whose inauguration on January 20 he donated a million dollars.
Zuckerberg has pushed for a change in strategy in the wake of the US election, which he believes is a “cultural turning point” to prioritizing freedom of “expression”, he said last week.
Meta’s refocus includes the resignation of Meta’s global affairs president Nick Clegg and the addition of Dana White, the CEO of the UFC, the country’s most popular fight show and someone as close to Trump as billionaire Elon Musk, to the board. .
Walmart has also abandoned its diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
In recent months, other companies have scaled back their DEI programs, such as Walmart, the largest retailer and private sector employer in the US, as well as firms such as Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply or John Deere, some of which have been threatened with boycotts on social media. .
Many DEI initiatives in the country were created in the wake of protests against racial injustice in the United States in 2020 due to the murder of African-American George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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