Posted on 02/04/2021 2:36:08 AM PST by gattaca
So Mr. Gayton, while working as general counsel for a corporate giant with plenty of money to spend on legal work, isn’t focused on getting the BEST lawyers, whoever they may be. He’s focused on quotas with respect to outside legal work.
The 14th Amendment only applies to governmental entities, not to private companies. Private companies are governed by the civil rights statutes.
This kind of thing has been going on for a long time — Coca-cola isn’t the first. UPS had a similar requirement in place at least 15 years ago, and may still for all I know.
The wording is a good reminder....and if Coca Cola ever received federal grants, they are subject to the 14th.
There goes the quality of that legal team
Guess coke wants to lose law suits
No, Coke is not the first, but this guy is more aggressive in pushing this policy. Even though most law firms of any size now have “diversity officer” positions and have been recruiting truly talented and/or window-dressing minorities for about two decades now, Gayton is still not happy with the results.
Illegal and unconstitutional, but what do they care!
Looks like “reparations” will be implemented by private industry, not the government, but with the full support and backing of the government. Either way, it’s illegal, wrong, and unfair.
This crap has been going on in the corporate world for decades. In my experience it isn’t taken too seriously. Huge companies can afford to have dumb/token “diversity” positions in management. They do this for show. The “Vice President of Diversity/Inclusion” brings nothing to the bottom line other than allowing the company to crow about being “woke”.
I’ve seen companies game the system big time. Big companies like to tout their “diversity spending goals”. They must spend money with Black-owned companies, Hispanic-owned, Natiive-American owned, etc.
A company I used to work for was pulling a huge amount of chemical business away from one company to a black-owned business. I told them it was because we were supposed to boost our “diversity spend”. The incumbent company in order to not lose the business changed their ownership documents around to make them qualify as a native-american owned firm.
They kept the business. It was a complete sham. But this happens all the time.
Isn’t that the truth. We have no safe products today. Even bottled water kisses me off. They get the water from the state and sell it back to the customers. If I boycotted everything that I was against, I’d have to stay in bed 24/7. Yep. That’s how bad things are. I definitely don’t see things improving.
Poison peddlers in more ways than one.
Yours are good additions.
This will be fun to watch:
Coke’s gonna be under fire for not including a whole list of social misfits.
“at least 30% of each of billed associate and partner time will be from diverse attorneys,
“We will no longer celebrate good intentions or highly unproductive efforts that haven’t and aren’t likely to produce better diverse staffing,” General Counsel Bradley Gayton wrote. “It’s the results that we are demanding and will measure going forward.”
What, are the not-mentioned Jewish people not also a minority? Oh wait, this is about lawyers...
The fact that Coca-Cola has someone who thinks like this as general counsel for the company tells you something about the quality of decision making at the executive level.
Thankfully they are just making beverages and not doing anything that society really needs except for providing jobs to their employees.
Half must be black even though they are only 13% of the population?
BTW, when will we see “racial equity” in pro basketball? Half the teams should be white.
They will be sued again and again.
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