Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller's foundation, America First Legal, requested the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigate IBM over its alleged diversity-centered employment and executive pay policies.
AFL alleged on Tuesday that the corporation has violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans companies from discriminating against someone based on sex, religion, or race.
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The five-page request cited video footage on X, formerly known as Twitter, which shows IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and IBM subsidiary Red Hat Inc. CEO Paul Cormier discussing executive pay and tying it to advancing IBM's diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
In the footage, Krishna said executives could lose their bonuses if they fail to meet their DEI quotas, which include guidelines on the hiring of Asian people, Latino people, and black people. Cormier admits he has already fired people who refused to cooperate with the policy.
BREAKING LEAKED VIDEO: CEO of IBM @ArvindKrishna admits to using coercion to fire people and take away their bonuses unless they discriminate in the hiring process.
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“You got to move both forward by a percentage that leads to a plus on your bonus, and by the way, if you lose, you lose part of your bonus," Krishna said in the video about hiring Latinos. "Asians are not an underrepresented minority in tech in America. ... I’m not going to finesse this. For blacks, we should try to get towards 13%."
In the letter, the foundation also pointed to and included IBM’s 2022 environmental, social, and governance report, which includes an annual "incentive program" that includes a "diversity modifier" affirming the management’s commitment to DEI practices.
“Rarely do you have such extreme, blatant statements on video documenting the extent to which this is happening everywhere," AFL’s vice president and general counsel, Gene Hamilton, told Bloomberg Law in a statement. "Apparently, based on the video and the publicly available material on its website, the senior leadership at IBM is wholly committed to discriminating against Americans as a matter of formal corporate policy. This cannot stand."
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Hamilton sent the letter to the EEOC and sent a separate letter to Krishna on Tuesday, notifying him and outlining the alleged violations.
The Washington Examiner has reached out to IBM for comment.