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The New York Times Company recently took some criticism for creating financial incentives for the company’s executives to hire a more diverse workforce.The Business Insider levied quite a few questions about whether or not it was appropriate for The Times to specifically address the hiring of women and minorities. According to the text of an internal corporate document: “The [Compensation] Committee also retained the discretion to increase or decrease the individual component of the total bonus paid to each executive by up to 10% based on the continuing development of a diverse work force, including the inclusion of diverse candidates in hiring processes and the demonstration of personal commitment to diversity through participation in diversity-related activities, such as mentoring and sponsorship of affinity groups.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SheFly69/ SheFly69

    OK, getting hired is one thing, but what about them retaining their jobs? These WF’s will fire US the first chance they get or the blacks will be harassed so, they will quit. Medco did something like this in Las Vegs when their business slowed, and it was time for pay raises and bonuses coming in April. WF have their way of doing and getting what they want, and keeping us down, while making themselves look innocent.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/odoggz/ odoggz

    damn. Paying whites exec to hire more people who are not white men? I thought we already had laws to enforce this and EEO stats to adhere to. So if you have to PAY a company to do what’s the law, obviously it’s saying their EEO stats are not being reviewed by an outside entity, and certainly not enforced. True, we have Affirmative Action, which benefits white women, more than blacks, since a white man is more likely to hire a white woman, than a black/latino/asian/etc, but most people think that it’s only a black thing. It’s not, everyone but white men benefited from it. So this strikes me as something that is aimed at getting more white women on board, but someone doesn’t want to specifically say it. The could have just said the goal is to increase “minorities” in the work place, and that would cover all non-white people, but because they mention “women and minorities”, well then you must be talking about white women specifically when mentioning “women”. So I’m curious as to who’s running/pushing this operation, really. Obviously, hiring more minorities is not going to solve the issue of equal compensation, especially with that silly example of the 2 people who didn’t get bonuses. What does that have to do with anything? If they’re claiming it’s to break up the “OL’ Boys Network” which hooks up their people, hiring minorities has never, and will never, break that up. One hand washes the other, so eventually that woman or minority makes it to the inner network, by ass kissing, and then they’re getting high bonuses too.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NetteDaPoet/ NetteDaPoet

    @ odogggz thats some real talk!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittytva/ smittytva

    SheFly69 sister, damn if you didn,t hit the nail on the head with that one,some real truth for black people ass.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XL_611/ XL_611

    It’s a private company.

    End of story.

    LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    I love NYC…so Progressive.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    well if your too lazy or unqualified to keep your job how is that the employers fault??? lmao. No one is given anything in this world…too many of our people are just looking for a handout, asking for reparations from a country built on free labor.

    Its nice to have a leg up, and I’m glad that we have affirmative action and groups like the NY Times to help us get a foot in the door…but we shouldent act like that alone entitles us to a secure job. No job is secure, as black people we have to work 5 times harder than any other race just to keep our jobs. So when we do get the opportunity lets not waste it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mukhtaar/ mukhtaar

    If any paper knows about giving people of certain race a “leg up”, it will be NYT. Lets see where they place the black recruits, but I know it will not be the ME and Africa offices.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nefertiti313/ Nefertiti313

    In 2008 Carlos Slim, a billionaire Mexican — recently acknowledged as the richest man in the world — became a huge stakeholder in the NY Times with an investment of approximately $130 million. I would bet that this has a lot to do with this financial incentive to hire more minorities, but I would also venture to say, that the minorities that he is looking to hire at the New York Times are not blacks, but hispanics.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ulovemeiluvutoo/ ulovemeiluvutoo

    I agree with you SheFly69.And also,I wish they would stop calling us Minorities.There are traces of Black everywhere around he globe.There is nothing minor about us.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Monte_Brown/ Monte_Brown

    Ulovemeiluvutoo, minority is a math term, dude. If their are 10 total fruit and 2 of them are apples, while the rest are oranges, the apples are the minority. I hear a lot of black people misunderstand what minority means. Black people are not minority in Nigeria, but we are minority in the United States, so are Latinos and everyone else, but white people. White people outnumber blacks 6 to 1 and latinos 5.8 to 1. Are you getting it. Do the math.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XL_611/ XL_611

    And it sounds like shefly has a case of “projectionitis”………JMO..

    LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XL_611/ XL_611

    Oh, and incidentally. Whites do that sort of thing to each other shefly. In fact, those things are far more intra-racial than inter-racial due to no other fact than races tend to group along racial lines, etc..

    Comments like yours just show how small minded you are. Equally small as the people you speak of.

    But, like I say. Racial differences are simply perceptions and thus a simple and easy excuse to exclude people from what they’re trying to get for themselves.

    And they WILL, use any excuse..

    Just like shefly……..;-0

    LOL

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