President Trump on Tuesday rolled back a 60-year-old antidiscrimination executive order.
The move, one of several anti-DEI changes he's made so far, has consequences for the private sector.
Here's what Trump's Equal Employment Opportunity decision means and how it affects businesses and workers.
President Trump this week revoked a civil rights-era Equal Employment Opportunity executive order, one of several sweeping changes he's made since taking office to hamper DEI and reshape the federal workforce.
The move guts federal contract workers' protections from discrimination on the basis of characteristics like race, religion, and sex.
Here's what his decision means for businesses and workers:
Executive Order 11246, issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, prohibited federal contractors from discriminating in employment and required them to take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity.
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The 60-year-old act has been amended and strengthened over the years to protect federal contract workers from discrimination on the basis of characteristics like race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and national origin.
The Department of Labor's website calls it "a key landmark in a series of federal actions aimed at ending racial, religious and ethnic discrimination" and notes that workers employed by federal contractors represent roughly 20% of the US workforce.
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