Lululemon

Risk Level:

High Risk

Summary:

Lululemon, a premium athletic apparel retailer, terminated an employee for posting offensive content on personal social media pages. Lululemon has financially supported the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization and Reclaim the Block. Lululemon has also opposed legislation the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) deems as "anti-LGBTQ" and encourages attendees at corporate events to "resist capitalism." Lululemon provides travel benefits for abortions. The company does not have viewpoint protections for its employees. For these reasons, Lululemon receives a "High 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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Lululemon requires suppliers not to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity, though it also requires protections against viewpoint discrimination (1). The company has fired an employee for what it deemed an offensive social media post on a personal account (2).

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

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Lululemon will not give grants to groups with “religious or political affiliations” (1).

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

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Rationale

Lululemon does not protect employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

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

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Lululemon has signed a letter from the HRC opposing state-level legislation it describes as “anti-LGBTQ” (1). The company has used its social media presence to support BLM (2). Lululemon has also hosted events that encourage attendees to “resist capitalism” and “decolonize gender” (3)(4). Lululemon supports abortion (5)(6).

Criteria

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

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Lululemon has donated money to BLM and Reclaim the Block, which support defunding the police and related public demonstrations (1)(2). Lululemon announced that it provides travel benefits for abortions (3). It also donated to pro-abortion groups (4).

Criteria

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

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N/A

Rationale

Lululemon does not have a PAC or make political contributions.

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December 27, 2022

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