Lowe's becomes latest company to end DEI policies amid growing backlash

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The company will not be sponsoring or participating in community events such as parades, festivals, or fairs and might also make additional changes to the policies over time, according to a memo.

Lowe’s will no longer participate in surveys for Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group supporting transgender rights, and is also combining its various business resource groups that represent diverse employees into one umbrella organization, an internal memo obtained by Reuters on Monday showed.

Lowe’s will not be sponsoring or participating in community events such as parades, festivals, or fairs and might also make additional changes to the policies over time, according to the memo have faced a larger conservative backlash against diversity initiatives which multiplied after widespread protests following the police killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans in 2020.

 

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