FedEx

Risk Level:

Medium Risk

Summary:

Although FedEx fired a manager for living out his religious beliefs in the workplace in 2012, the company has had no further incidents of discrimination for views or beliefs. FedEx still does not provide viewpoint protections for employees, yet it funds LGBTQ organizations and the National Urban League. FedEx does not discriminate against religious charities. For these reasons, FedEx receives a Medium Risk rating.

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Corporate Weaponization

Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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FedEx settled a religious discrimination lawsuit in 2012 after firing an employee over his religious beliefs (1)(2). Since then, FedEx has not publicly fired employees or canceled clients based on their viewpoints.

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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FedEx does not permit corporate charitable grants to “individual churches, synagogues, or denominational programs” but does fund other religious organizations in line with its mission (1)(2)(3)(4).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Rationale

FedEx does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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Rationale

FedEx generally does not support ideological causes or policies (1)(2).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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FedEx supports the Point Foundation, The Trevor Project, the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, and other LGBTQ organizations (1)(2)(3). FedEx has also supported the National Urban League (4).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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FedEx has donated to the Equality PAC (1).

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March 23, 2023

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