Amazon has commissioned a “racial equity audit” of safety data for warehouse employees, after facing shareholder pressure from one of the largest public pension funds in the United States.
The audit, which Amazon claims is intended to address “disparate racial impacts” for black and Latino workers, will be led by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, representing the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Amazon has not specified a timeline for the audit.
“We are committed to supporting and increasing diversity, and have committed to conducting and publicly releasing the results of a racial equity audit that will evaluate any disparate racial impacts on our nearly one million U.S. hourly employees resulting from our policies, programs, and practices,” said Amazon’s Board of Directors in a proxy statement. “We also have announced Company-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, and we provide extensive statistical reporting on our workforce diversity and pay equity.”
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