October 16, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Highlights From CWC’s 2024 Compliance, Diversity, and Inclusion Conference

The Center for Workplace Compliance, our affiliated nonprofit membership association, held its 2024 Compliance, Diversity, and Inclusion (CD&I) Conference in Reston, Va., on October 2 and 3. Representatives from member and prospective member companies engaged with CWC staff during several sessions. Session topics included: "A New Risk Landscape for Compliance and Diversity Programs,” about some employers’ reshaping of their CD&I...
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September 23, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

New EEOC Report Takes Another Look at Diversity in the High Tech Workforce and Sector

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a report concluding that people of color are underrepresented in the high-tech workforce compared with their participation in the overall U.S. workforce. The report—High Tech, Low Inclusion: Diversity in the High Tech Workforce and Sector 2014-2022—concludes that people of color in high-tech jobs are better represented in the high-tech sector. The high-tech workforce refers...
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September 05, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

What’s the “Dismantle DEI Act,” and How Would It Impact Corporate DEI Efforts?

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has introduced legislation—the “Dismantle DEI Act” (S. 4516)—that would affect corporate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices. S. 4516 would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act by adding a definition of “prohibited diversity, equity, or inclusion practice.” The bill would add “ethnicity” to the Civil Rights Act’s list of protected bases and...
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June 27, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Updated Template for Good Faith Outreach Letter Available to CWC Members

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its template for good faith outreach letters. CWC members can use this template when contacting external sources for help in identifying diverse candidates that they can recruit for job openings in their companies. This template can help members that are government contractors demonstrate their efforts to comply with...
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June 12, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Eleventh Circuit Halts Program Awarding Business Grants Only to Black Women

In another potential setback for corporate programs designed to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), a federal appeals court has told a lower court to halt a contest open only to Black women, pending a decision on whether it passes constitutional muster. A split three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit made the ruling June...
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May 02, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

CWC’s FAQs on the New Federal Race/Ethnicity Data Reporting Standards

The new standards for collecting and reporting federal race and ethnicity data—published in March by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)—will have a major impact on the reporting requirements imposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit...
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April 08, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Divided FCC Votes To Resume Collecting Race/Ethnicity Data From Broadcasters

The Democratic majority on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted recently to resume collecting race and ethnicity data from broadcasters, an information collection that the agency abandoned more than 20 years ago. Once the data is collected, the FCC intends to disclose it to the public in non-aggregated form as submitted by each covered broadcaster. Again on a 3 to...
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April 04, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

OMB Revises 1997 Federal Race/Ethnicity Reporting Standards, Adds New “MENA” Category

The standards that federal agencies have used for more than 25 years to collect race and ethnicity data are changing. The revised standards, published by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Federal Register March 29, 2024, add a new race and ethnicity category for individuals identifying as Middle Eastern or North African (MENA). They also require...
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April 02, 2024
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

Fourth Circuit Affirms $3.4 Million Title VII Discrimination Award to White Male

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has affirmed a jury verdict in favor of a white male employee who claims he was fired in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Fourth Circuit found that there was sufficient evidence for the jury to conclude that the plaintiff’s White race and/or male sex...
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March 26, 2024
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Eleventh Circuit Rules Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” Cannot Be Enforced Against DEI Training

Florida still cannot enforce its Individual Freedom Act, nicknamed the “Stop WOKE Act,” after a federal appeals court upheld a federal district court’s preliminary injunction. In Honeyfund v. Florida, 11th Cir. (March 4, 2024), a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the preliminary injunction granted by the U.S. District Court for the Northern...
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