URBN

Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, FP Movement, Nuuly, Terrain
Pennsylvania
Retailing

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Summary:

URBN has not terminated business relationships due to views or beliefs, though it does not provide protections against viewpoint discrimination. URBN has expanded its healthcare coverage to cover employees' abortion-related travel costs. It has also partnered with GLSEN and opposed state-level election security laws. For these reasons, URBN receives a Medium Risk rating.

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Rationale
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.

Risk Level
Rationale

URBN has not publicly terminated business relationships due to views or beliefs.

Criteria

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

Risk Level
Rationale

URBN has no official rule prohibiting partnerships with religious organizations in its charitable giving (1).

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

Risk Level
Rationale

URBN does not provide protections against 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

URBN is a member of the Civic Alliance, a corporate coalition that vocally opposes state-level election security laws (1). The Urban Outfitters brand also “partners” with GLSEN, albeit among many other non-ideological organizations (2).

Criteria

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

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Rationale

After the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, URBN announced that it would expand its medical benefits to cover employees’ travel to states with less strict abortion laws (1). URBN pledged over $100,000 plus tripled employee donations to Black Lives Matter-related organizations (2).

Criteria

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

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N/A
Rationale

URBN does not have a PAC.

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August 11, 2023

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