Paramount’s headquarters in New York on August 27, 2024.
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Overall According to a CNBC note, its employees told its employees this week.
In the note sent to employees on Wednesday, Paramount said that he Respect the executive decree of President Donald Trump prohibiting practice within the federal government and demanding that agencies will investigate private companies on their Dei programs.
The CO-PDG George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins cited the executive decree in the memo, as well as the Supreme Court and the federal mandates, such as the impetus of the political changes of the media giant.
Among the modifications, the company said that it “will no longer buy or no longer use ambitious digital objectives linked to race, ethnicity, sex or sex of hires”. Paramount also said that he had ended his policy for collecting these statistics for his candidates in the United States on forms and career pages, except on the markets where he is legally required to do so.
“To be the best storytellers and continue to stimulate success, we must have a very talented, devoted and creative workforce that reflects the perspectives and experiences of our many different audiences. Values such as inclusiveness and collaboration are part of primordial culture and will continue to be,” the co-ceos wrote in memo.
They added that they will continue to assess their policies and seek talents in all horizons.
Paramount has participated in a certain number of efforts of diversity, equity and inclusion. He donated millions to racial justice in 2020 after the murder of the police of George Floyd and presented initiatives such as suppliers’ diversity program and content for change, an overhaul campaign on racial equity and mental health. The company has organized an annual inclusion week for years and retains a global inclusion office.
“Diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental for our activities,” said former CEO Bob Bakish during the PARAMOUNT inclusion week in 2023, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Paramount joins companies like Walmart,, Target And Amazon By bringing back their DEI objectives and policies in recent months. Others, such as Apple and Costco, have publicly defended and engaged in their positions, even if the Trump administration has increased its attacks against practices.
Media companies have taken various measures to respond to the Trump administration’s policy changes since the president’s inauguration last month.
Earlier this month, Disney changed its DEI programs, which included updating performance factors and brand change initiatives and employee resource groups, among others.
Above the same time, the PBS public broadcaster – who, as a beneficiary of federal funding, is more directly assigned by the order of Trump than companies – said he would close his office. CNBC indicated that the employees of Dei would leave the company so that it Stay in accordance with Trump’s decree.
Meanwhile, the Federal Communications Commission began to investigate Comcast on his efforts. Trump’s decree, signed during his first day in power, ordered the federal agencies to identify and probe the “most flagrant and discriminating Dei practitioners” in their sectors. Comcast previously declared in a statement that he would cooperate with the investigation.
Disclosure: Comcast has nbcuniversal, the parent company of CNBC.