On March 19th, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released two guidance documents focused on educating the public about “illegal DEI” in the workplace. The first Document is titled: What You Should Know About DEI-Related Discrimination at Work and the second document is titled: What To Do If You Experience Discrimination…
On March 17th, EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas sent letters to 20 Law Firms requesting information about their DEI-related employment practices. But there’s one problem– “she does not have the authority alone to act or speak on behalf of the EEOC. Official EEOC action requires a quorum of the five-member Commission, which currently does not exist after Trump fired Commissioner…
A preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s executive orders to dismantle DEI now apply to all executive agencies given directives to delete DEI. Judge Abelson stated yesterday. In other words Federal government agencies “cannot pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate any awards,contracts or obligations or change the terms of any Current Obligation, on the basis of the Executive Orders. Or require…
This past Thursday, February 27th, the U.S. Department of Education launched EndDEI.Ed.Gov, a public portal for parents, students, teachers, and the broader community to submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly-funded K-12 schools. This strategy will help make it easier for the Trump administration to identify schools receiving federal funding who may be violating the False…