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Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Sets New Worker Wellbeing Goal to Educate and Empower Workers in its Supply Chain March 8, 2021 GMT SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 8, 2021-- In honor of International Women’s Day and in celebration of the company’s long-standing partnership with worker wellbeing programs such as the HERproject™, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE: WSM), announced today that it successfully met its goal of educating and empowering over 100,000 workers in its supply chain by 2020. The company ...

Why CEOs Will Finally Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are By Susan McPherson On 02/19/21 at 6:00 AM EST Will corporations heed the lessons of the Black Lives Matter movement? Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images It was quite a year in the world of corporate activism. In 2020, businesses and their leaders stood up like never before. CEOs and their boards halted campaign contributions to politicians who spread lies about a stolen presidential election, contributed millions to food banks to help Americans who lost their jobs as a...

GreenBiz photocollage, via Shutterstock This week, the eyes of the nation and the world are riveted on Washington, D.C., as America attempts the peaceful transfer of power that has long been a revered symbol of pride and national identity. I’ll certainly be among them, bidding a not-so-fond adieu to the current occupant of the White House — these days, a diminished pariah, even within his own party. But I’ll also be peering over at corporate boardrooms and corner offices where a seemingly newfound set of political ideals appears to be setting in. How those ideals evolve will be one of t...

EAU CLAIRE — Documents show Eau Claire County has been billed nearly $4,000 by the firm that employs the county’s outside counsel during the ongoing Sheriff’s Office investigation into the county’s Department of Human Services. Rich White’s employer, Weld Riley, billed the county for approximately the first five weeks of his work. Two invoices provided to the Leader-Telegram through a Freedom of Information Act request show Eau Claire County was billed $3,900 by Weld Riley for work done from Sept. 22 to Oct. 28. The county retained White beginning Sept. 22. At the Dec...

EAU CLAIRE — A day after Sheriff Ron Cramer provided his perspective regarding his office’s investigation into the county Department of Human Services, the outside attorney representing Eau Claire County shared with the County Board what he has gathered over the past few months. On Monday, Cramer told the county Finance and Budget Committee that his office has been “stonewalled” and not received any DHS financial information since it initiated an investigation into DHS financial practices in May. Cramer also said the Sheriff’s Office hired the accounting firm Wipfli i...