Employees at tech firms are using the shares their employers granted to them to file shareholder proposals, reports The New York Times.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and the New York City Pension Funds have filed shareholder proposals asking CBS and Alphabet to eliminate "inequitable employment practices."

A group of almost 50 pension funds, religious groups and asset managers, most of which are CII members, sent letters to the boards of Fortune 500 companies asking them to offer more context to their pay ratio disclosure for additional insight into their "overall approach to human capital management."