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Ukraine & Russia Confirmed You decide

PepsiCo makes money in Russia funding war

PepsiCo continues material operations in Russia and helps fund the war.

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euromaidanpress.com
PepsiCo still making money in Russia—and helping fund war

LGBTQ+ policies Confirmed You decide

PepsiCo, Inc. provides health benefits to employees who suffer gender dysphoria

The documented action involving PepsiCo, Inc. concerns gender dysphoria.

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SUPPORTING STATEMENT: PepsiCo, Inc. (“Company”) provides health benefits to employees who suffer gender dysphoria/ confusion, and who seek medical, chemical, and/or surgical treatments to aid their “transition” to their non-biological sex.3 The Company boasts about its 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index and HRC’s designation as a “Best Places to Work for LGBT Equality,” and has “made a series of benefit coverage enhancements that align with the clinical guidelines outlined in the World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standards of Care.”4

Workplace equity Settlement Against

PepsiCo settles disability discrimination lawsuit

PepsiCo agreed to pay $270,000 and work with an accessibility consultant to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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PepsiCo to Pay $270,000 in EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
– PepsiCo Beverage Sales, LLC, a Delaware company operating a facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, agreed to pay $270,000 and work with an accessibility consultant to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
PepsiCo to Pay $270,000 in EEOC Disability Discrimination Suit
According to the EEOC’s suit, PepsiCo hired a blind employee as a customer care advocate for its Winston-Salem call center in April 2022.
The suit also alleged that PepsiCo rejected an offer by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Resources to assist PepsiCo with identifying accessibility solutions for the employee.
Under the two-year consent decree resolving the lawsuit, PepsiCo is enjoined from failing to provide a reasonable accommodation as required by the ADA; must work with an expert to ensure that certain software applications at the Winston-Salem facility will be accessible to individuals with visual disabilities; make periodic progress reports to the EEOC; maintain and distribute an anti-discrimination policy addressing reasonable accommodations; provide relevant training at its Winston-Salem facility; and post a notice of rights and obligations under the ADA.

Workplace equity Allegation Against

PepsiCo is accused of firing a blind employee

EEOC sues PepsiCo for failing to accommodate and firing a blind employee.

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EEOC Sues PepsiCo for Failing to Accommodate and Firing a Blind Employee
– PepsiCo Beverage Sales, LLC violated federal law when it failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to and fired a blind employee in its North Carolina call center, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

Workplace equity Confirmed You decide

PepsiCo launches $570M racial equality journey

PepsiCo launched a $570 million Racial Equality Journey in the U.S. to increase Black and Hispanic managerial representation and support minority-owned businesses over five years.

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In 2020, PepsiCo launched our more than $570 million Racial Equality Journey in the U.S., an effort to break down systemic barriers to opportunity, starting with a set of initiatives in the United States focused on increasing Black and Hispanic managerial representation at PepsiCo to mirror workforce availability in the U.S., supporting Black- and Hispanic-owned businesses and lifting up Black and Hispanic American communities over five years.

Corporate conduct Allegation Against

PepsiCo is accused of agreeing to preferential wholesale pricing

PepsiCo is accused of entering into an agreement with Walmart that provided Walmart preferential wholesale pricing on Pepsi products while forcing other retailers to pay inflated prices, violating antitrust law.

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people.com
PepsiCo and Walmart are facing a proposed class action lawsuit alleging the two companies engaged in a long-running price-fixing scheme that artificially inflated the cost of Pepsi-branded soft drinks for consumers who shopped anywhere other than Walmart.
PepsiCo Accused of Price-Fixing Scheme That Allegedly Favored Walmart
law.com
Law.com Radar detected at least five antitrust class actions filed in New York and California federal courts following a U.S. judge's order that compelled the Federal Trade Commission to file public documents showcasing why former FTC Chair Lina Khan pursued a rare Robinson-Patman Act case against PepsiCo alleging the beverage giant unlawfully favored Walmart.
nwahomepage.com
The proposed class action alleges that Walmart and PepsiCo entered into an agreement that gave Walmart preferential wholesale pricing on Pepsi products while forcing other retailers to pay inflated prices, which violates antitrust law.
Class action lawsuit filed against Walmart, PepsiCo over alleged price-fixing

Workplace equity Settlement Against

PepsiCo subsidiary settles religious discrimination lawsuit

Frito-Lay, Inc., a PepsiCo subsidiary, agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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– Frito-Lay, Inc., a Plano, Texas-based subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures and distributes snack foods, has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
In addition to paying $50,000 in monetary relief, Frito-Lay will provide specialized training on reason­able accommodation processes to human resources personnel, managers and employees; require all accommodation requests to be reviewed and decided by PepsiCo regional staff with specialized knowledge of Title VII; and report requests to accommodate an employee’s or prospective employee’s religious observance or practice and the resolution of these requests to EEOC.

Corporate conduct Confirmed Against

PPC claims PepsiCo website misrepresents sustainability

PPC said PepsiCo's website uses misleading language about the corporation's dedication to sustainability.

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yahoo.com
PPC also said PepsiCo's website uses misleading language about the corporation's dedication to sustainability despite practices that suggest otherwise.

Corporate conduct Official statement Against

U.S. lawmakers pressed PepsiCo and the Federal Trade Commission on whether Pepsi used discriminatory pricing practices favoring Walmart over smaller retailers

The official statement involving PepsiCo (Pepsi) concerns smaller retailers.

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– U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Representative Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust, and the co-chairs of the House Monopoly Busters Caucus — Representatives Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Angie Craig (D-Minn.), and Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) — led lawmakers in pressing PepsiCo (Pepsi) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on whether Pepsi used discriminatory pricing practices that favored Walmart over smaller retailers and raised questions about possible political motivations in the FTC’s decision to dismiss its price discrimination lawsuit against the company.

Workplace equity Settlement Against

PepsiCo settles ADA accommodation violations

PepsiCo settles by being enjoined from failing to provide reasonable accommodation under the ADA, must work with an expert to ensure software accessibility for visually impaired employees at Winston-Salem, and provide periodic progress reports to the EEOC.

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Under the two-year consent decree resolving the lawsuit, PepsiCo is enjoined from failing to provide a reasonable accommodation as required by the ADA; must work with an expert to ensure that certain software applications at the Winston-Salem facility will be accessible to individuals with visual disabilities; make periodic progress reports to the EEOC; maintain and distribute an anti-discrimination policy addressing reasonable accommodations; provide relevant training at its Winston-Salem facility; and post a notice of rights and obligations under the ADA.