Provides benefits and work-life balance
3 campaigns on this issue
- ICCR member investors on paid sick leave at thirteen retail, restaurant, logistics and rail companies, 2023ICCR member investors · Amazon.com Inc., Best Buy, CVS Health · 2023 · In 2023 ICCR members engaged thirteen companies, Amazon, Best Buy, CVS, Denny's, Dine Brands, FedEx, Hilton, Norfolk Southern, Target, TJX, Union Pacific, YUM! Brands and Macy's, and filed nine shareholder proposals, at CVS, Denny's, FedEx, Hilton, Norfolk Southern, TJX, Union Pacific, YUM! Brands and Macy's. The coalition's own account does not give a vote percentage for any of them.
- Impact Shares and Trillium Asset Management at Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific on paid sick leave, 2023Impact Shares · Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific Corporation · 2022 · Announced on 5 December 2022, filed at both railroads for the 2023 annual meetings: Impact Shares at Norfolk Southern and Trillium Asset Management at Union Pacific. It reached a vote at one of the two. Union Pacific, 18 May 2023, Proposal 7: rejected, 53,102,043 for, 400,261,287 against, 7,238,541 abstaining and 67,585,896 broker non-votes, or 11.7 percent of the votes cast for and against. No paid sick leave proposal appears in the certified results of Norfolk Southern's meeting on 11 May 2023, whose only shareholder proposal concerned the rights of street name and non-street name shareholders.
- American Legislative Exchange Council and member companies against local paid sick leave, from 2011American Legislative Exchange Council · Yum! Brands, Darden Restaurants, Walt Disney Company (The) · 2011 · Wisconsin passed Senate Bill 23 in May 2011, overriding the Milwaukee paid sick days ordinance that voters had approved by referendum with over 70 percent of the vote in 2008. At ALEC's August 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans, legislators on the Labor and Business Regulation Subcommittee, co-chaired by Yum! Brands, were given complete copies of that bill as a model for state override, along with a target list and map of state and local paid sick leave policies prepared by the National Restaurant Association. A preemption bill was introduced in Tennessee and became law in Louisiana in 2012, and by 2013 similar bills had been introduced in Florida, Washington, Mississippi, Michigan, Arizona, Indiana and Oklahoma.
Organizations working on this
Domini Impact Investments
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 9 companies, among them CVS and Nike between 2021 and 2023.
Figure 8 Investment Strategies
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at TJX Companies in 2023.
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
The coalition at the center of faith-based shareholder advocacy in the United States for over fifty years, coordinating member institutions' engagements and resolutions.
Laborers' International Union of North America
The filer is the pension fund for the union's own staff and affiliates, not the union itself. It submitted a proposal to NRG Energy on 1 December 2008 asking the company to require that directors win a majority of votes to be elected, and withdrew it in January 2009 after NRG changed its rules.
Trillium Asset Management
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 12 companies, among them CVS Health and Bright Horizons Family Solutions between 2022 and 2026.
United Church Funds
Files shareholder resolutions in its own name. It has filed at 4 companies, among them Dollar Tree and AbbVie between 2018 and 2023.