In addition to racial justice audits, the group is asking companies to recruit a more diverse workforce, hire staffers with civil rights expertise, include anti-discrimination goals in performance evaluations and cut financial ties to law enforcement. — AFP Relaxnews
An influential US racial justice group is urging companies across the technology industry to bring in independent auditors to investigate their policies and products for potential discrimination.
Color of Change, which backed racial justice audits at Airbnb Inc and Facebook Inc in recent years, on Wednesday released a six-point framework urging tech executives to help “ensure a more humane and less hostile world for Black people”. The organisation has been asking companies to back up their public comments over racial injustice following the police killing of George Floyd last summer by taking more concrete steps against inequality.
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