Enhanced Lobbying Disclosure | Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

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<h4>Resolution Details</h4>
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<strong>Company:</strong>
<p>Workday Inc.</p>
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<strong>Year:</strong>
<p>2025 </p>
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<strong>Issue Area:</strong>
<p>Lobbying & Political Contributions </p>
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<strong>Focus Area:</strong>
<p>Lobbying </p>
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<strong>Status:</strong>
<p>Filed</p>
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<h2>Resolution Text</h2>
<p><strong>Resolved, </strong>the stockholders of Workday request the preparation of a report, updated annually, disclosing:</p>
<p>1.    Company policies and procedures governing direct and indirect lobbying; </p>

Payments by Workday used for direct or indirect lobbying, including the amount of the payment and the recipient; and
Description of management’s decision-making process and the Board’s oversight for making payments described in section 2 above.

<p>For purposes of this proposal, “indirect lobbying” is lobbying engaged in by a trade association or other organization of which Workday is a member or to which it contributes. “Direct and indirect lobbying” include efforts at the territorial, local, state and federal levels, including lobbying outside the United States </p>
<p>The report should be posted on Workday’s website. </p>
<p><strong>Supporting Statement </strong></p>
<p>Fuller disclosure of Workday’s lobbying activities and expenditures is needed to assess whether our company’s lobbying is consistent with its expressed goals and stockholder interests. Workday spent $4,920,000 from 2020 – 2023 on federal lobbying. This does not include state lobbying, where Workday also lobbies, drawing attention for pushing model legislation to regulate artificial intelligence in at least seven states.[1] Workday also lobbies abroad, spending between €1,400,000 – 1,699,997 on lobbying in Europe for 2020 – 2023. </p>
<p>Companies can give unlimited amounts to third party groups that spend millions on lobbying and undisclosed grassroots activity, and these groups may be spending “at least double what’s publicly reported.”[2] Workday lists memberships in the Business Roundtable and US Chamber of Commerce, which together have spent over $2 billion on federal lobbying since 1998, and supports social welfare groups (SWGs) that lobby like the Bay Area Council and Future of Privacy Forum. Workday does not disclose its payments to trade associations and SWGs, or the individual amounts used for lobbying, to stockholders. </p>
<p>Workday’s lack of disclosure presents reputational risk when its lobbying contradicts company public positions. For example, Workday supports a trustworthy and ethical policy framework for AI, yet reportedly has lobbied at the state level to remove private right of action[3] while facing a class action lawsuit claims that AI software is biased.[4] And Workday publicly supports addressing climate change, yet the Business Roundtable filed an amicus brief opposing the Securities and Exchange Commission climate risk disclosure rules[5] and previously opposed the Inflation Reduction Act,[6] and the Chamber also sued the SEC over climate risk disclosure rules[7] and previously opposed the Paris climate accord.</p>
<p>Workday should expand its lobbying disclosure.</p>
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<p>[1] https://therecord.media/human-resources-artificial-intelligence-state-legislation-workday.</p>
<p>[2] https://theintercept.com/2019/08/06/business-group-spending-on-lobbying-in-washington-is-at-least-double-whats-publicly-reported/</p>
<p>[3] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/key-california-lawmaker-unveils-al-anti-discrimination-measure.</p>
<p>[4] https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/eeoc-says-workday-covered-by-anti-bias-laws-ai-discrimination-case-2024-04-11/.</p>
<p>[5] https://www.eenews.net/articles/investors-question-business-roundtables-climate-rule-battle/.</p>
<p>[6] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/19/top-us-business-lobby-group-climate-action-business-roundtable.</p>
<p>[7] https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-chamber-commerce-sues-sec-over-climate-risk-disclosure-rules-2024-03-14/.</p>

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<div class=”views-field views-field-nothing”><span class=”field-content”> Matthew Illian</span></div><div class=”views-field views-field-title views-field-field-shareholder”><span class=”field-content”>United Church Funds</span></div>
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