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Coca-Cola pauses aggressive diversity plan after chief lawyer resigns
Fox Business ^ | 5/4/21 | By Will Feuer

Posted on 05/04/2021 10:32:28 AM PDT by cann

Coca-Cola has paused its controversial diversity plan — that included penalties on outside law firms if they failed to meet racial diversity quotas — after intense backlash.

The pause comes after the orchestrator of the plan, Coke’s former general counsel Bradley Gayton, abruptly resigned last month after less than a year on the job and as criticism of the quotas mounted.

Some questioned whether Gayton’s policies violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says employers can’t treat people differently based on their race.

Coca-Cola hired Gayton in September 2020 after spending nearly 30 years as the top lawyer at Ford. Despite his departure from Coke as general counsel, he still has a relationship with the company. He signed a new contract to serve as a consultant to Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey. In that position, he’ll be making a hefty $12 million over the next year. That included a $4 million sign-on fee and a monthly consulting fee of $666,666, according to an April 21 securities filing.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
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To: cann
Coca-Cola has paused its controversial diversity plan

The Pause that Refreshes. Ahhhh.

Search said: “It's The Pause That Refreshes” (Coca-Cola's ad campaign circa 1929) . I think they used it again much later or how could I have heard of it. I'm old but not that old.

No matter: boycott Coke.

41 posted on 05/04/2021 11:46:48 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Woke-a-cola is afraid to fire him. I wonder if he got a raise for his new position?


42 posted on 05/04/2021 11:52:12 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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Last trip to grocery store I purchased Diet Pepsi instead of Coke Zero...rivers begin with drops of water...


43 posted on 05/04/2021 12:07:22 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Pining_4_TX

The concept of having quotas based on race, even quotas that state that a certain percentage of the workforce be linked to the percentage of the population and no more is abhorrent. As is often said, when applied across the board, NBA teams would only be allowed to have one or two black players at most on the entire roster. Who wants that? A fan would want to see the best players.

And if they weren’t going to apply it across the board...that is, we will do it for other professions (such as lawyers or doctors) but not sports...why would that be acceptable? There is no underpinning logic because...there isn’t any except racism to demand these quotas.

In a prior post, I had opined that the guy (lawyer in question) probably couldn’t do real lawyer work, and I am certain that that would be regarded as racist to some, to which I would reply:

If you hire and promote people based on their sex or color of their skin, why would you be offended if someone judges their abilities based on those very things?

In my eyes, Affirmative Action is a double edged sword. If someone can’t accept that people got to where they were because of their sex or the color of their skin, perhaps they shouldn’t be hiring and promoting those people based on their sex or the color of their skin.

If I were a capable black person, I would view Affirmative Action with a jaundiced view.


44 posted on 05/04/2021 12:09:19 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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45 posted on 05/04/2021 12:09:23 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: mewzilla

All is takes are the (major) stockholders, at the next meeting. They drive the power!


46 posted on 05/04/2021 12:44:03 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Actually, a smart head-fake to test customer loyalty before retaining the a$$inine policy or returning to the prior policy.


47 posted on 05/04/2021 12:49:03 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: spincaster
How do you run a FOR profit organization in a VERY competitive business, and tell fully 50% of consumers to p*ss off?
48 posted on 05/04/2021 1:20:29 PM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: cann

And I have paused (permanently) drinking cokes, even after growing up with them here in Georgia.


49 posted on 05/04/2021 1:27:22 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: cann

The payoff was Gayton plan all along.


50 posted on 05/04/2021 1:29:33 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: xp38

That is the irony of it all. Just like the “New Coke” fiasco, when Coke tries to become “like Pepsi” it is a disaster.


51 posted on 05/04/2021 1:34:09 PM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: cann

GO WOKE, COKE!

GO BROKE!


52 posted on 05/04/2021 1:37:55 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: xp38

Divide and conquer.


53 posted on 05/04/2021 2:13:56 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Cecily

Old time Coke ad....

Caption:(woman) I might have fallen in love with him but he could make Oscar Wilde look straight.


54 posted on 05/04/2021 3:18:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: cann

Too late. I will never buy coke again.


55 posted on 05/04/2021 3:27:16 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: cann

That’s what they’re gonna blame this on? Gee, that one guy was just running amock and we just couldn’t stop him...
BS. They are all complicit.


56 posted on 05/04/2021 11:00:06 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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