This Is The Way: EEOC Complaint Filed Against Williams-Sonoma For DEI Hiring/Promotions

America First Legal (AFL) has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against San Francisco based Willaims-Sonoma for illegal discrimination by using race, nationality, and sex as factors in hiring and promotion decisions, or in awarding contracts to outside companies, in accordance with the Company's DEI policies. Specifically, AFL contends that Williams-Sonoma gives preferences to women and people of color when making employment decisions. The article relates that:

    The company's recent annual report boasts that an aggressive DEI push has led to women making up 68 percent of its workforce, and with 41 percent hailing from an 'ethnic minority group.'

    The same goes for the leadership of the company, which is headed by the $24 million-a-year CEO Laura Alber — 57 percent of board members are women, and 29 percent are classed as 'diverse.'

    In other filings, the company says it is working at 'increasing black representation across our company,' as well as in deciding upon which vendors to award contracts.

This seems like a slam dunk case of discrimination although I doubt that the EEOC will take any action. But you have to jump through the hoops.