A legal group co-founded by top White House aide Stephen Miller has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, seeking an investigation of the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
The America First Legal complaint, filed on Monday, claims that the Dodgers’ DEI policies “appear to discriminate against employees, or prospective employees, solely because of their skin color or sex.” They cite a reference on the team’s DEI page that outlines recruitment efforts, including “sponsoring programs geared toward women and people of color.”
They also take issue with business resource groups, such as those aimed at Asian professionals and the Black Action Network. Although the complaint acknowledges that the groups “appear to be open for all employees to join,” some of them “appear to provide material employment benefits to employees based on their race, color, sex or national origin.” As an example of the benefits, America First Legal pointed to language describing the Dodgers’ Women’s Opportunity Network, described as offering “a safe and equitable space for women to thrive” and a place to “demonstrate that women add tangible value to the organization’s success.”
The complaint follows an incident on June 19 in which masked agents appeared near one of the Dodgers’s gates to its parking lot. Protesters gathered in the area, and the Los Angeles Police Department arrived at the scene, and the agents left. The Dodgers posted that that...
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