FASTENAL CO

The proposal requests that Fastenal adopt a policy to publicly disclose its Consolidated EEO-1 Report (the company’s annual EEOC workforce breakdown by race, ethnicity and gender across ten job categories) and to publish that report on the company website and in its proxy statement each year. Proponents argue the EEO-1 provides standardized, job-level diversity data — including senior management — which enables investors to benchmark representation across peers and assess year-over-year changes. The supporting statement notes Fastenal has disclosed limited aggregate diversity metrics in prior ESG reports but has not published the full EEO-1 detail consistently. The proposal highlights that many large peers already disclose EEO-1 data and frames the request as a low-cost way to increase transparency on diversity and inclusion.