On March 10, 2022, Florida became the first state in the nation to pass a law (which Governor DeSantis is expected to sign) placing strict limitations on the topics that an employer can discuss when conducting diversity training in the workplace. The law, Florida House Bill 7/Senate Bill 148 (HB7), also known as the “Stop Woke Act,” targets both employers and schools and is in-line with Governor DeSantis’ agenda banning corporate trainings and school lessons that make people “uncomfortable” about the actions of their ancestors. Governor DeSantis uses the terms “woke” as an acronym he devised for “Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees.”
Specifically, the bill provides that employees can sue their employers for discriminatory practices under the Florida Civil Rights Act if the employer violates the statute by discussing the prohibited topics in its workplace training.
The “Stop Woke Act” prohibits employers of 15 or more employees from subjecting an employee to a diversity training that causes an employee to believe certain defined concepts or makes him/her uncomfortable as a result of these concepts being discussed.
The bill attempts to clarify the term “uncomfortable” by stating that feelings must be linked to diversity trainings that imply someone is responsible for actions “committed in the past by other members of the same race, color, sex, or national origin.” This essentially broadens the Florida Civil Rights Act’s definition of discrimination to...
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