Coca-Cola Puts the Brakes on Diversity Plan After Top Lawyer Resigns
Coca-Cola Puts the Brakes on Diversity Plan After Top Lawyer Resigns 4 May 2021 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. 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. Some questioned if Gayton’s policies violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ...