Resolved: Shareholders request that Worthington issue a report at least 120 days prior to the next annual meeting, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, evaluating whether and how the Company intends to revise its policies to be fully responsive to Indicators 1 through 5 of the Benchmark.
Read MoreResolved: The stockholders of FedEx request the preparation of a report, updated annually, disclosing:
1. Company policy and procedures governing lobbying, both direct and indirect, and lobbying communications.
2. Payments by FedEx used for (a) direct or indirect lobbying or (b) grassroots lobbying communications, in each case including the amount of the payment and the recipient.
3. FedEx’s membership in and payments to any tax-exempt organization that writes and endorses model legislation.
4. Description of management’s and the Board’s decision-making process and oversight for making payments described in section 2 and 3 above.
For purposes of this proposal, a “grassroots lobbying communication” is a communication directed to the general public that: (a) refers to specific legislation or regulation, (b) reflects a view on the legislation or regulation, and (c) encourages the recipient of the communication to take action with respect to the legislation or regulation. “Indirect lobbying” is lobbying engaged in by a trade association or other organization of which FedEx is a member.
Both “direct and indirect lobbying” and “grassroots lobbying communications” include efforts at the local, state and federal levels. The report shall be presented to the Nominating & Governance Committee and posted on FedEx’s website.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that Nike Inc. (“Nike”) publish, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, annual reporting assessing the Company's diversity and inclusion efforts. At a minimum reporting should include:
the Board process for assessing the effectiveness of its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs,
the Board’s assessment of program effectiveness, as reflected in any goals, metrics, and trends related to its promotion, recruitment, and retention of protected classes of employees.
Resolved: Shareholders of Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) ask the Board of Directors to oversee the preparation of a public report on the impact of the use of mandatory arbitration on Tesla’s employees and workplace culture. The report should evaluate the impact of Tesla’s current use of arbitration on the prevalence of harassment and discrimination in its workplace and on employees’ ability to seek redress. The report should be prepared at reasonable cost and omit proprietary and personal information.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that the board of directors issue a report by December 2021 on plastic packaging, estimating the amount of plastics released to the environment by our use of plastic packaging, from the manufacture of plastic source materials, through disposal or recycling, and describing any company strategies or goals to reduce the use of plastic packaging to reduce these impacts.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that CarMax issue a public report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, describing if, and how, it plans to reduce its total contribution to climate change and align its operations with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees C.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Caterpillar Inc. (“Caterpillar”) publish annually a report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, assessing the Company's diversity and inclusion efforts. At a minimum the report should include:
the process that the Board follows for assessing the effectiveness of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs,
the Board’s assessment of program effectiveness, as reflected in any goals, metrics, and trends related to its promotion, recruitment, and retention of protected classes of employees.
Resolved: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, disclosing the Company’s climate policies, performance, and improvement targets, if any, responsive to each of the indicators set forth in the Net Zero Benchmark, or any rationale for failure to adopt such metrics.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that the board of directors issue a report by December 2021 on plastic packaging, estimating the amount of plastics released to the environment by our use of plastic packaging, from the manufacture of plastic source materials, through disposal or recycling, and describing company strategies or goals to reduce use of plastic packaging to reduce these impacts.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that the board of directors issue a report by December 2021 on plastic packaging, estimating the amount of plastics released to the environment by our use of plastic packaging, from the manufacture of plastic source materials, through disposal or recycling, and describing any company strategies or goals to reduce the use of plastic packaging to reduce these impacts.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, disclosing the Company’s climate policies, performance, and improvement targets, if any, responsive to each of the indicators set forth in the Net Zero Benchmark, or any rationale for failure to adopt such metrics.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors issue a climate transition report, at least 120 days prior to the next annual meeting, and updated annually, that addresses the scale and pace of its responsive measures associated with climate change.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Booking Holdings publish annually a report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, assessing the Company's diversity and inclusion efforts. At a minimum the report should include:
the process that the Board follows for assessing the effectiveness of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs,
the Board’s assessment of program effectiveness, as reflected in any goals, metrics, and trends related to its promotion, recruitment, and retention of protected classes of employees.
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders of Booking Holdings request that the Company provide shareholders with the opportunity, in the annual proxy statement (starting with 2022), to provide an advisory vote on whether, in consideration of global climate benchmarks, they approve or disapprove of the Company's publicly available climate policies and strategies.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Comcast Corporation (“Comcast”) publish annually a report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, assessing the Company's diversity and inclusion efforts. At a minimum the report should include:
the process that the Board follows for assessing the effectiveness of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs,
the Board’s assessment of program effectiveness, as reflected in any goals, metrics, and trends related to its promotion, recruitment, and retention of protected classes of employees.
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that The TJX Companies, Inc. ("TJX") publish annually a report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, assessing the Company's diversity and inclusion efforts. At a minimum the report should include:
the process that the Board follows for assessing the effectiveness of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs,
the Board’s assessment of program effectiveness, as reflected in any goals, metrics, and trends related to its promotion, recruitment, and retention of protected classes of employees.
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Dollar Tree, Inc. (“Dollar Tree”) annually publish, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, reports assessing the Company’s diversity and inclusion efforts. At a minimum the report should include:
the process that the Board follows for assessing the effectiveness of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs,
the Board’s assessment of program effectiveness, as reflected in any goals, metrics, and trends related to its promotion, recruitment, and retention of protected classes of employees.
Resolved: Shareholders request that the board of directors issue a report by December 2021 on plastic packaging, estimating the amount of plastics released to the environment by our use of plastic packaging, from the manufacture of plastic source materials, through disposal or recycling, and describing any company strategies or goals to reduce the use of plastic packaging to reduce these impacts.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders of Walmart Stores, Inc. (“Walmart”) request that the Board of Directors oversee the preparation of a report to shareholders on whether and how Walmart’s racial justice goals and commitments align with the starting pay for all classifications of Walmart Associates.
Read MoreResolved: By investors to Amend Article I of the Bylaws by adding the following section:
Section 16. Annual Proxy Vote and Report on Climate Change. The annual corporate proxy statement shall include a proposal requesting an advisory vote by shareholders expressing non-binding advisory approval or disapproval of the Company’s publicly available climate policies and strategies, in consideration of key climate benchmarks.
The Board of Directors is authorized to include in the Company’s annual proxy statement, or publish elsewhere, a report that characterizes the scale and pace of its responsive measures associated with climate change, including referring, at Board discretion, to the Company’s alignment with climate-related benchmarks.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as constraining the discretion of the board or management in disclosing or managing issues related to a climate change transition.
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