/1🔎NEW — We just filed a federal civil rights complaint against kitchenware store Williams-Sonoma for alleged race and sex discrimination.
The company allegedly engages in:
🚨Race-based contracting
🚨Race and sex balancing
This is our latest action to stop illegal DEI:
/2 Williams-Sonoma, a kitchenware and home furnishings retailer with brands including Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Williams Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, Mark and Graham, and GreenRow, proudly represents to the public and its shareholders and
/3 As outlined in Williams-Sonoma’s 2024 Annual Report, their Equity Action Plan and Equity Action Committee led to “approximately 68.1% of our total workforce identified as female and approximately 41.1% identified as an ethnic minority group.”
/4 The company boasts higher management, comprising “56.6% of Vice Presidents and above identified as female.”
/5 Williams-Sonoma’s Equity Action Committee also appears to reward executives for making race, color, sex, or national origin a motivating factor in hiring and other employee practices.
/6 The Equity Action Plan tracked and set goals for the diversity of the company, board members, and board nominees. It then designed the “Associate Equity Network Groups” that benefit some workers and disfavor others, specifically white, male, and religious Americans.
/7 Additionally, the Company touts its race-based contracting practices.
/8 Racial, ethnic, sex, and national origin “balancing” in hiring, training, and promotion is prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
/9 Finally, Williams-Sonoma’s 10K report to the federal SEC and investors highlights the company’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies.
/10 However, the company has wrongfully failed to acknowledge that these policies are both legally suspect and highly controversial, and, as companies such as Disney, InBev, and Target have discovered, create material market and reputational risk.
/11 Read more here:
/1🔎NEW — We just filed a federal civil rights complaint against kitchenware store Williams-Sonoma for alleged race and sex discrimination.
The company allegedly engages in:
🚨Race-based contracting
🚨Race and sex balancing
This is our latest action to stop illegal DEI: /2 Williams-Sonoma, a kitchenware and home furnishings retailer with brands including Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Williams Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, Mark and Graham, and GreenRow, proudly represents to the public and its shareholders and /3 As outlined in Williams-Sonoma’s 2024 Annual Report, their Equity Action Plan and Equity Action Committee led to “approximately 68.1% of our total workforce identified as female and approximately 41.1% identified as an ethnic minority group.”/4 The company boasts higher management, comprising “56.6% of Vice Presidents and above identified as female.” /5 Williams-Sonoma’s Equity Action Committee also appears to reward executives for making race, color, sex, or national origin a motivating factor in hiring and other employee practices. /6 The Equity Action Plan tracked and set goals for the diversity of the company, board members, and board nominees. It then designed the “Associate Equity Network Groups” that benefit some workers and disfavor others, specifically white, male, and religious Americans. /7 Additionally, the Company touts its race-based contracting practices. /8 Racial, ethnic, sex, and national origin “balancing” in hiring, training, and promotion is prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964./9 Finally, Williams-Sonoma’s 10K report to the federal SEC and investors highlights the company’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies. /10 However, the company has wrongfully failed to acknowledge that these policies are both legally suspect and highly controversial, and, as companies such as Disney, InBev, and Target have discovered, create material market and reputational risk./11 Read more here:
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