Coca-Cola Halts Radical Left-Wing Diversity Plan Amid Company’s Chief Lawyer Resigning
The left-wing company boasted about its plan to penalize law firms who didn’t give enough hours to minority attorneys -- but it has been warned about the legality of its plan.
Coca-Cola has recently morphed into a company that sells sugary and unhealthy drinks into a left-wing company that seems more focused on pushing the Black Lives Matter agenda.
But it had to stop a diversity program that it boasted about after it was warned that it was potentially illegal.
“Coca-Cola has put the brakes on its controversial diversity plan, which included penalizing outside law firms if they did not meet racial diversity quotas, because of intense backlash,” Breitbart recently reported.
“The pause on the diversity plan comes after the plan’s architect, Coca-Cola’s former general counsel Bradley Gayton, abruptly resigned last month after serving less than a year on the job and faced mounting criticism of the quota system,” reporter Katherine Rodriguez said.
The program would have penalized law firms who did not provide enough billable hours to minority attorneys.
On April 28, “the Project on Fair Representation sent a letter to Monica Howard Douglas, Coca-Cola's new General Counsel,” according to a news release. The letter was “urging the company to rescind the recently announced policy that requires all outside law firms hired by the company to meet racial quotas in staffing Coca-Cola matters.”
“The abrupt departure last week of Bradley Gayton after less than a year as General Counsel suggests that Coca-Cola is already aware that its racial quota requirements on outside firms are indefensible,” the letter said. “Coca-Cola should act swiftly to publicly undo this unfair, polarizing, and illegal policy.”
“Without a public statement forthcoming from Coca-Cola reversing these quotas,” the attorneys said, “it must be assumed that the policy is still in effect and legal challenges may be forthcoming.”
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