Trump revoked an anti-discrimination hiring rule. Here’s what it means.
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI policies targeted by the president.
Trump doesn't only want to end DEI. He's also voiding a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule.
President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job applicants.
Trump Revokes Workplace Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965
The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Donald Trump revokes LBJ’s historic Equal Employment Opportunity order
Donald Trump’s war on diversity in the workplace has expanded to include the revocation of a landmark anti-discrimination act that has been in place for 60 years. Trump’s order on “Ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity” revokes former President Lyndon B.
Which sections of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act did Trump revoke?
Among the first executive actions signed by President Donald Trump during his first day in office was ending “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion programs inside federal agencies. In a phone call Monday morning ahead of Trump’s swearing-in,
Equal Employment Opportunity: What to Know About Executive Order 11246
Learn about the history of Executive Order 11246 following President Trump’s executive order to eliminate DEI programs and remove DEI employees within a week.
Trump rescinds measure used to fight workplace discrimination for 60 years
President Donald Trump this week rescinded a nearly 60-year-old executive order that prohibited government contractors from discriminating in their hiring, firing, promotion or pay practices.
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Did Trump kill ‘Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965’? Here’s why that claim caused confusion
Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...
Donald Trump just undid a key piece of LBJ's legacy
Just a day after his return to the White House, President Donald Trump is making good on promises to radically remake the ...
Why President Johnson Signed the Executive Order in 1965 That Trump Rescinded
The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...
MORNING GLORY: President Trump has just issued an enormously consequential executive order
The Supreme Court has already affirmed the original meaning of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now the ...
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Why is Trump releasing the last files on JFK, RFK, MLK assassinations?
Donald Trump wants to declassify remaining documents related to the assassination of John F Kennedy, RFK and MLK.
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Declassified JFK files: When will they be released, what we know about them
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump is ordering the release of classified documents surrounding the ...
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'Civil rights canon in American law': Trump rescinds historic LBJ nondiscrimination order
With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government ...
President Donald Trump orders all federal diversity staff be put on leave ‘immediately’
President Donald Trump has instructed all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave “immediately” ...