Company: BA
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-049921
Chunk: 111

Company: BOEING CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 111
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 Officer briefs the Compensation Committee and the full Board on the Company’s hiring and promotions practices, including actions related to inclusion and belonging, and our Law and Human Resources organizations are collectively responsible for ensuring that our policies and actions are consistent and compliant with all applicable laws and regulations. To maintain transparency and accountability, we have made robust public disclosures, including our workplace demographic data in our consolidated EEO-1report and our human capital management initiatives in our Sustainability & Social Impact Report. Producing the report sought by the proposal would be onerous, unnecessary, and inefficient. We believe our existing and substantial disclosures and reports provide our shareholders with the information they need to evaluate our human capital management initiatives and their effectiveness, as we strive to hire and promote the most qualified talent from all backgrounds. As we describe above, we have already engaged third parties to help us strengthen our culture based on the principles of nondiscrimination, inclusion, and meritocracy. This further engagement would be uniquely burdensome. As detailed on the website the proponent refers to, a Civil Rights audit like the one called for is an onerous and time-consuming practice that will distract the attention of management. It is a comprehensive examination of the Company’s policies, practices, products, services, workforce and community impact in which the auditor has unlimited access to interview all relevant employees from all levels of the Company and to gather all information the auditor determines is needed, including from outsider stakeholders. We do not believe that commissioning a sweeping, open-ended third-party audit would result in an efficient use of resources or provide meaningful benefit to shareholders. Based on our commitment to hire, promote and retain the best talent, adherence to the law, robust Board oversight, and our comprehensive disclosures, including in our Sustainability & Social Impact Report, the Board believes that this proposal would not add value to shareholders, yet would result in the diversion of management time and resources, and is unnecessary and redundant.

| THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS A VOTE AGAINST ITEM 5. |

| 96 |     | 2025 Proxy Statement |

ANNUAL MEETING INFORMATION Attending the Virtual Annual Meeting Time and Location Boeing’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held by webcast on Thursday, April 24, 2025, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/BA2025. Eligible Attendees Attendance is limited to registered and beneficial Boeing shareholders as of the record date. Please note that