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DCI Consulting

[Webinar] Summer 2025 Update: Affirmative Action for Federal Contractors - July 23rd, 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT

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The first half of 2025 brought unprecedented changes for federal contractors seeking to comply with federal affirmative action requirements. The rescission of Executive Order 11246 via Executive Order 14173 upended decades of...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Company’s pay equity study is not privileged, court rules

A cautionary tale for employers. EDITOR’S NOTE: Our Affirmative Action Alert blog has been re-titled EEO Compliance Dispatch. Many companies proactively analyze employee compensation to ensure that any disparities...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Department of Labor Proposed Budget Seeks To Completely Dismantle OFCCP

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According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) fiscal year 2026 proposed budget, the Department is set to fully eliminate the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) next fiscal year, which begins October 1,...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

DBE Program in Peril: Recent Legal Challenges and What They Mean for Women- and Minority-Owned Contractors

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Recent legal challenges jeopardize the future of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program, a long-standing initiative designed to support minority- and women-owned businesses in...more

Williams Mullen

Yes, EEO-1 Reporting Is Still A Thing

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Although Executive Order 11246, which mandated race and gender affirmative action programs for federal contractors and subcontractors, was revoked by President Trump in January 2025, the EEOC’s newly updated EEO-1 Data...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Department of Justice Rescinds Prior Report About Race and Sex in Federal Contracting

On April 23, 2025, the United States Department of Justice announced that it is rescinding the January 31, 2022 Notice of Report on Lawful Uses of Race or Sex in Federal Contracting Programs (the “2022 Report”). The April 23...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

EEOC Issues New Technical Assistance on “DEI-Related Discrimination”

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On March 19, 2025, the EEOC issued two technical assistance documents addressing “DEI-related discrimination” in the workplace. The first document, issued jointly with the Department of Justice, is a one-pager titled “What To...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

EEOC Targets 20 Large Law Firms regarding DEI related Employment Practices

On March 17, 2025, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) Acting Chair, Andrea Lucas, sent letters to 20 large law firms requesting information concerning each firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) related...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Federal Court Refuses to Lift Preliminary Injunction Blocking DEI Executive Orders, While EEOC, USDOE, and State AGs Address DEI...

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Last week brought further developments related to the Trump administration’s efforts to curtail what it views as illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives....more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

‎90-Day Stay Requested in Mid-America Milling Co. v. U.S. DOT

The plaintiffs and the federal government seek a 90-day stay in Mid-America Milling Company v. United States Department of Transportation, Case No. 3:23-cv-00072, “to permit [the federal government] the opportunity to...more

The Volkov Law Group

New AG Bondi Redirects Justice Department Priorities (Part I of III)

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In an unprecedented and surprising set of actions, the new Attorney General Bondi issued eleven new, internal directives for the Department of Justice.  The new Directives are available HERE. Immediately after her...more

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DOJ Issues New Directive on DEI

On February 5, 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued fourteen memos outlining new policies for the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”). Among them is a memorandum entitled “Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and...more

Genova Burns LLC

Banks Targeted by Attorney Generals

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On January 21, 2025, President Donald Trump, through Executive Order, declared affirmative action and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs unlawful in the federal government and also for those employers who enter into...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Executive Order Targets Affirmative Action Programs: New Compliance Requirements for Government Contractors

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Just days into taking office, President Trump delivered on his campaign promises to dismantle DEI programs in federal agencies. On January 20 and 21, President Trump issued two such executive orders targeting DEI and...more

Frantz Ward LLP

President Trump’s Executive Order Rescinding Executive Order 11246: What Does this Mean for Federal Contractors?

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On January 21, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”...more

Hogan Lovells

New executive order ends contractor race and sex affirmative action obligations and targets employer DEI efforts

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President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday issued a sweeping Executive Order (the Order), entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” which impacts Federal contractors and grantees as well as...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Trump Administration Revokes EO 11246, Prohibits ‘Illegal’ DEI: What the EO Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring...

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On Jan. 21, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (EO). Its stated purpose is to end illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion and...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Trump Revokes Executive Order 11246 Requiring Affirmative Action

On January 21, 2025, President Trump revoked Executive Order 11246, which has been in place since 1965. EO 11246 prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual...more

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Breaking: President Trump Rescinds Executive Order 11246

On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued a broad executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”), which among other things, rescinds Executive Order (“EO”) 11246....more

Fisher Phillips

Growing Attacks on Corporate DEI Programs: 5 Employer Takeaways to Help Support Your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are facing scrutiny across the country, causing some employers to scale down their DEI initiatives or drop them altogether. As companies face pressure and increasing legal challenges,...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Ten ways to avoid challenges to DEI initiatives

How prepared is your organization? Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies have faced increased...more

Mayer Brown

Affirmative Action - What Steps can Businesses Take?

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Although there is no explicit regulation or legislation that provides for this, it can be implied under the anti-discrimination laws in Singapore that employers are permitted to take affirmative action in the workplace in...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Corporate DEI Policies Face Scrutiny Following SCOTUS Affirmative Action Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action in higher education in June 2023, effectively foreclosing the consideration of race in and of itself in that context. Although the Court’s decision was...more

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California Voters Reject Proposition to Reinstate Affirmative Action

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Among the 2020 ballot initiatives, California voters had the opportunity to weigh in on a 24-year ban on affirmative action in California.   In 1996, California voters approved the California Civil Rights Initiative...more

Carlton Fields

Construction Contractors Take Note: OFCCP’s Industry-Focused Technical Assistance Guide (TAG) May Prove Helpful in Preparing for...

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Federal construction contractors are barred from discriminating in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or covered veteran status, and many...more

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