President Donald Trump has targeted, amidst the inauguration of his 20 January inauguration. Diversity, equity and inclusion from rootOr Dei, Program within the federal government. But their efforts are beyond dei, saving the rule of a civil rights-era with a recent order, which has helped to protect millions of workers from discrimination.
January 21 of Mr. Trump Order -“Eradicate illegal discrimination and restore merit-based opportunity”-It canceled it Equal employment opportunities In 1965 President Lindon B. Rules signed by Johnson. According to the rule, federal contractors, who today employ 3.7 million people, cannot discriminate against job applicants or workers based on race, gender and other protected characteristics.
Labor experts say that the cancellation of the 60 -year -old rule eliminates a Bedrock Civil Rights Protection for American workers, indicating an attempt to target the issues of the workplace. While Dei is a shorthand for programs that encourage equality in the workplace for women, minorities and other groups, equal employment opportunities rules prevented federal contractors from engaging in acts of discrimination, such as due to their race Due to their gender to rent someone or to reduce the employee.
“It is still surprising for me to take such extraordinary steps,” said Fatima Gaus Graves, CEO of the National Women's Law Center. Canceling the signs of the rule “he is going after something big: the original and fundamental idea that we should be able to work at workplaces without discrimination.”
He said, “We agreed to him 60 years ago, and I will add that people in this country also support it.”
What was the Uniform Employment Opportunity Rules?
The rule required federal contractors to “take positive action” to ensure that workers should not be discriminated against of breed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. It covered everything from hiring everything to promotion and salary, in which the Labor Department assigned the task of overseeing the rule.
How does the rules for workers affect?
Labor experts said that for employers it is still to discriminate against the breed, gender, or other symptoms under the US law.
But cancellation of the same Employment Opportunity Act may have a cool effect on cases where workers of federal contractors allege that they have been misbehaved, and the labor department affected the labor department to carry forward cases of workplace discrimination Can, Josh Boxman, said the manager of government affairs in National. Employment Law Project.
“Moving this set of tools away causes damage to workers,” the boxman said.
Does it affect private employers?
While equal employment opportunities are focused on the citizens, the executive orders of Shri Trump can spread to private employers, Alex Hetos said, a partner of the law firms Dorsey and Whitney and expert on a government contract.
“This is not only about government contractors and granters,” Hotos said. “This is clearly a phased approach and is going to apply to the private sector. You see that at the back end [executive order] Where the Attorney General is directed to make a plan, either together to call private sector companies that are included in DEI or are actually looking for enforcement action in some way. ,
Even before the orders of Mr. Trump, federal agencies are banning DEI from corporations. Meta, Paid, McDonald's And Wal-martThey are retreating from these programs. Those decisions followed the 2023 Supreme Court verdict Restraint Pressure of college entry, as well as conservative political activists.
Why is President Trump Dei banning and canceling the same employment opportunity rules?
The objective of Mr. Trump is to restore the administration as a system of holding a qualification-based work, according to the authorities and their executive orders.
In order to cancel the 1965 rule, the President wrote, “This is the United States policy to protect all Americans and promote personal initiative, excellence and hard work.”
Dei policies, he wrote, “has led to illegal, dangerous discrimination, which preferred how people were born instead of what they were able to do.”
Many cases have targeted DEI programs, some alleged that policies discriminate against people who are not minorities or they violate the rights of some workers, among other allegations, among other allegations, According For the Meltzer Center of New York University.
“The Trump administration is not getting rid of the concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion, as they are generally understood,” a approach to EREC Smith, the co-founder of Research Fellow and Free Black Thott at the Cato Institute, a non -To highlight the vision variety within the blacksmiths. “He is getting rid of the important social justice version, which is naturally divisive.”
What will happen with Dei programs?
According to the instructions of the Trump administration, the DEI programs are being scrubbed from the federal government.
All federal employees in DEI roles were placed on leave by EST at 5 pm on Wednesday. The agencies were also told to take the media (website, social media accounts, etc.) to pay the payable. [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility] The office, “and upcoming DEI training and ending the contracts with the Dei-concerned contractors by the same time on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump's January 21 executive order needs to come with federal agencies publicly trading companies, large non -profit institutions and DEI programs with “nine potential citizen compliance checks” from other private institutions that are needed “I illegal discrimination or preferences form.”
That part of the executive order seems to be “an attempt to intimidate the private sector,” Nelp's boxman said the need to find a civil probe in the private sector. “This seems to be a clear attempt to the companies that are doing the right thing,” he said.