Before Burger King and Tim Horton’s merged together and became RBI, a quarter of the Tim Horton’s board was female. Currently, after the merge, RBI’s board of directors is all male.

Recently a proposal has been made to make sure there are women on the board, and so far the board’s voting shows refusal.

 

We don’t know all the details to this story, but it definitely looks bad on RBI. And we can’t find a solid reason from RBI as to why they refuse to put in place a policy that places women on the board as well.

As some people have pointed out, maybe they simply want to find the most qualified people for the board instead of forcing someone into the position?? But we also don’t know the full background. If there were women on the board before the merge, why aren’t they there now? Perhaps they didn’t apply? Or maybe there is more to this?

 

While presenting the proposal during the annual general meeting, Fred Pinto, OceanRock Investment’s CEO said:

“We [proposed] this quite simply because it’s the right thing to do.”

 

Here’s a link to the full story, globalnews.ca/news/tims

 

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