February 13, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Enforcement of E.O. 14173 Begins

The Trump Administration has wasted no time in beginning to enforce Executive Order 14173, which instructs all federal agencies to enforce civil rights laws and combat illegal private sector diversity, equity, and inclusion activities. The Federal Communications Commission has launched an investigation into the DEI practices of Comcast Corporation and NBCUniversal. The FCC selected Comcast for review because of “substantial...
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February 11, 2025
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Category: Executive Order

Fifth Circuit Rules Biden’s Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Increase Lawful

A federal appeals court has upheld former President Biden’s Executive Order 14026 establishing a $15.00 federal contractor hourly minimum wage and indexing it to inflation. In Texas v. Trump, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found the increase to be within the President’s authority under the Procurement Act. The Fifth Circuit concluded that raising the minimum wage to...
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February 11, 2025
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

The EEOC Begins To Implement President Trump’s “Defending Women” Executive Order

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has moved quickly to make changes in response to Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, which President Trump issued on January 20. The EEOC announced January 28 that it had: Removed the option to use “X” as a gender marker and “Mx.” as a prefix...
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February 10, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

Trump Administration Faces First Legal Challenge on Pair of Diversity Executive Orders

Two of President Trump’s DEI-related executive orders are being challenged in a lawsuit from the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. NADOHE’s lawsuit, filed February 3 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, asserts that Executive Orders 14151 and 14713 violate the Constitution’s due process and free speech protections and asks the court to declare...
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February 05, 2025
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

CWC Holds Member Roundtable To Discuss Rescission of E.O. 11246

CWC held a members-only roundtable January 29 to discuss Executive Order 14173, which rescinded long-standing Executive Order 11246. President Trump issued E.O. 14173, titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” on January 21. It rescinds E.O. 11246 and requires federal contractors to certify that they are not operating any programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion that violate federal anti-discrimination laws. During...
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February 03, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

President Trump’s Executive Order Recognizing Two, And Only Two, Sexes

On his first day in office, President Trump signed Executive Order (E.O.) 14168 to establish the federal government’s position that there are two sexes, male and female, that are not changeable. The E.O. defines “female” as “a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell” and defines “male” as “a person belonging, at conception, to the sex...
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January 23, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

President Trump Rescinds Dozens of Executive Orders on First Day in Office

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an Executive Order (E.O.) rescinding more than 60 E.O.s issued by President Biden. Two of the rescinded E.O.s regulated federal contractors: E.O. 14055, which required successor contractors under the Service Contract Act (SCA) to offer jobs to a predecessor contractor’s employees; and E.O. 14069, which directed contracting agencies to consider requiring contractors to...
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January 23, 2025
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Category: Affirmative Action and Diversity

President Trump Rescinds E.O. 11246

President Trump has issued a new Executive Order formally rescinding Executive Order 11246 and directing the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to cease holding federal contractors responsible for taking affirmative action. Executive Order 11246 was signed by President Johnson in 1965, and prohibits covered federal contractors from discriminating in employment on the basis of race and sex, among...
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December 02, 2024
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Category: Executive Order

Ninth Circuit Rules Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Increase Exceeded Biden’s Authority

President Biden exceeded his authority by issuing Executive Order 14026 raising the federal contractor minimum wage to $15 per hour, a federal appeals court ruled November 5 in Nebraska v. Su. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit also held that the U.S. Department of Labor acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it published implementing regulations. The Ninth Circuit...
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October 02, 2024
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Category: Compensation

DOL Announces Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Rates To Increase on January 1, 2025

The minimum wage rates for work performed on some government contracts will increase January 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor announced September 30, 2024. The rate on government contracts subject to President Obama’s Executive Order 13658—which governs government contracts entered into, renewed, or with options exercised before January 30, 2022—will increase from $12.90 to $13.30. The rate on contracts...
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