On July 26, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida permanently blocked Florida’s Stop WOKE Act, which restricted the types of anti-harassment and antidiscrimination training that employers can require their workers to attend.

Quick Hits

• The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida recently upheld an injunction against part of Florida’s Individual Freedom Act, also known as the Stop WOKE Act, which regulated the types of content that employers could include in employee training.
• The court found that a section of the law was unconstitutional because it violated employers’ First Amendment rights to free speech.
• Florida cannot enforce the part of the law that prohibits employers from requiring employees to participate in training that supports certain beliefs about DEI.

On April 22, 2022, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Individual Freedom Act (IFA), commonly referred to as the “Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act.” The law raised concerns for employers, as it restricted the types of antiharassment and antidiscrimination training programs that employers could require, particularly if the training addressed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) topics, such as systemic racism, white privilege/white supremacy, or unconscious bias. As passed, the law prohibited employers from requiring workers to participate in a workplace training program if it “espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels” certain...

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