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Paramount Is Rolling Back DEI Initiatives to Comply With Trump Mandates
Paramount Global's co-CEOs told employees it will change some of its DEI programs to comply with the Trump administration's directives.
In a memo to employees Wednesday, Paramount co-CEOs George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins, cited Trump administration’s mandates requiring “changes in the way the company approaches inclusion moving forward. The media company also has eliminated the “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” qualitative metric in its short-term incentive plan that directly connected 5% of funding for the program to Paramount’s “success in progress on companywide DEI initiatives, including aspirational representation goals,” the execs wrote. In a separate broadside launched at Comcast and NBCUniversal, Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed FCC chairman, this month notified Roberts that the agency’s Enforcement Bureau was opening an investigation into the company over diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
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