A top Adidas executive resigned on Tuesday, weeks after a number of Black employees pushed for her ouster amid a wider outcry over what they said were past acts of racism and discrimination at the company. Karen Parkin, who is British, had been the only woman on Adidas’s six-person executive board since 2017, and was responsible for human resources across the company. leader will best drive forward the pace of change that Adidas needs at this time,” said Igor Landau, chairman of the company’s supervisory board, in a release announcing her resignation. Germany has a two-tiered board system in which a supervisory board is elected both by shareholders and employees, while the executive board runs the day-to-day operations of the company. In a letter sent to employees and seen by The New York Times, Ms. Parkin acknowledged that she had lost the trust of Adidas employees.

Source: New York Times June 30, 2020 18:08 UTC