Bloomberg Finance officials in New York have targeted Amazon and other firms they believe should do better against racial bias or gender parity. New York's state and city comptrollers on Dec. 18 issued shareholder proposals to companies they believe have not sufficiently fought against racial discrimination or gender parity within their organizations. Thomas DiNapoli, the state comptroller and sole trustee of the $226.4 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, Albany, filed a shareholder proposal at Amazon.com asking for an independent audit to review the company's civil rights, equity, diversity and inclusion policies. Through its proposal, the common fund cites allegations that Amazon has disproportionately paid low wages to its Black and Latino warehouse employees, exposed these employees to COVID-19 through dangerous working conditions and discriminated against employees of its Whole Foods subsidiary for wearing Black Lives Matter masks while working.