McDonald’s has become the latest company to scale back its diversity goals, joining a growing list of corporations, including Walmart, John Deere, and Harley-Davidson, that reduced their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives last year.

In 2021, facing legal challenges related to sexual harassment and racial discrimination, McDonald’s launched new diversity initiatives to address these issues. However, McDonald’s said on Monday that the “shifting legal landscape” following the Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions, along with actions taken by other corporations, prompted a thorough review of its own policies.

The company said that it will discontinue setting “aspirational representation goals,” which are targets aimed at increasing diverse representation in senior roles, and that it plans to discontinue a program that urged suppliers to implement diversity training and boost minority representation within their leadership teams. McDonald’s is also renaming its diversity team to the Global Inclusion........

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