Boeing Co is seeking to increase Black U.S. employees throughout the company by 20% and mandate benchmarks for hiring people of color, Chief Executive Dave Calhoun told employees in a memo on Friday reviewed by Reuters. U.S. corporations have become more responsive to complaints related to racial equality following a summer of sweeping anti-racism protests over the slaying of Black people by police.
As part of a “zero-tolerance approach,” the aerospace company said it terminated the employees and took corrective action against 53 others for “racist, discriminatory or otherwise hateful conduct” between June 2020 and April 2021.
U.S. corporations have become more responsive to complaints related to racial equality following a summer of sweeping anti-racism protests over the slaying of Black people by police.
As part of a “zero-tolerance approach,” the aerospace company said it terminated the employees and took corrective action against 53 others for “racist, discriminatory or otherwise hateful conduct” between June 2020 and April 2021.
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