After the election results of November 2024, I considered what changes we might see in the realm of employment law with the change in presidential administrations. I made some predictions. After the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, some of my predictions have come to pass and others have not – or have not yet. Let’s have a look at what has happened and what may yet happen over the next four years.
From the outset, the second Trump administration has aggressively sought to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Not just in the government but at universities and private businesses, such as prominent national law firms. The director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Andrea Lucas has stated that the agency is going to focus on “reverse discrimination” – i.e. discrimination against individuals who are in the majority in terms of race, gender or any of the other protected classes. Her biography on the EEOC website states:
She prioritizes evenhanded enforcement of civil rights laws for all Americans, including by rooting out unlawful DEI-motivated race and sex discrimination; protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination; defending the biological and binary reality of sex and related rights, including women’s rights to single-sex spaces; protecting workers from religious bias and harassment; and remedying other areas that have been...
Fox News viewers have torn into Donald Trump after he made a false immigration statement during a video call with members of the military on Thanksgiving. During the November 27 call, which he too...