Company Editor

"stanley-black-and-decker": {
    "names": [
        "Stanley Black & Decker",
        "Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.",
        "The Stanley Works",
        "Stanley",
        "SWK"
    ],
    "comment": "Stanley Black & Decker is a multinational tool and security company that has hidden payments to executives [1] and underpaid field technicians and other employees [2][3]. The firm has continued to sell known unsafe garden tools that caused injuries [4][5] and removed LGBTQ and DEI content from its websites [6].",
    "sources": {
        "1": "https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023-111",
        "2": "https://www.law360.com/articles/577611/black-decker-shells-out-5m-to-settle-wage-class-action",
        "3": "https://www.law360.com/articles/391580/judge-oks-class-settlement-in-black-decker-wages-suit",
        "4": "https://web.archive.org/web/20150511182124/http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Releases/2015/Black-and-Decker-Agrees-to-1575-Million-Dollar-Civil-Penalty-Internal-Compliance-Program-for-Failure-to-Report-Defective-Lawnmowers/",
        "5": "https://web.archive.org/web/20130420152711/http://www.cpsc.gov/en/newsroom/news-releases/2011/black--decker-agrees-to-960000-civil-penalty-for-failing-to-report-defective-grasshog-xp-weed-trimmeredgers/",
        "6": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13834661/toolmaker-stanley-black-decker-dei-lgbtq-campaign-website-boycott.html"
    },
    "sourceNotes": {
        "1": "hid payments to executives",
        "2": "deprived field technichians of proper wages and underpaid employees",
        "3": "deprived field technichians of proper wages and underpaid employees",
        "4": "continued to sell known unsafe garden tools which injured multiple people",
        "5": "continued to sell known unsafe garden tools which injured multiple people",
        "6": "removed LGBTQ and DEI content from its websites"
    },
    "tags": [
        "retail",
        "electronics"
    ],
    "score": 24,
    "ownedBy": [],
    "logoUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Stanley_Black_%26_Decker_Logo.svg",
    "siteUrl": "https://stanleyblackanddecker.com/",
    "updatedAt": "2025-09-13T17:14:54.841Z"
},