Trump officials start dismantling civil rights and equal employment opportunity offices required by law, as part of DOGE’s secret plan: WashPost
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Some of yall really don't understand white supremacy. They are literally reversing the clock to the 50's.
Agencies across the federal government are dismantling offices that enforce civil rights and antidiscrimination laws under a Tr-ump administration push to shrink the workforce, weakening the government’s ability to deliver on legal obligations to protect workers’ rights.
The Social Security Administration this week announced it was closing its Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity, where about 150 people worked investigating civil rights complaints, preventing harassment and ensuring accommodations for people with disabilities, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
Leaders at the Labor Department are planning to cut by 90 percent the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which for decades has worked to ensure that government contractors took affirmative action to end discrimination at their firms, documents obtained by The Washington Post show. The Federal Trade Commission, meanwhile, has halved its internal equal employment opportunity office to three employees from six, and similar moves have taken place at NASA, where most information about how to file complaints has been removed from its websites.
The moves signal the Tr-ump administration’s intent to deliver on U.S. D.O.G.E. Service plans for workforce cuts laid out in a series of documents obtained by The Post, which initially contemplated eliminating the civil rights functions altogether in violation of federal law.
The in-agency equal opportunity offices are mandated by statute to ensure that employees receive equal opportunity “regardless of race, sex, national origin, color, religion, disability or reprisal for engaging in prior protected activity” and have been viewed with skepticism by the administration, which has sought to purge the federal government of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in furtherance of President Donald Tr-ump’s goal “to forge a color-blind and merit-based” society.
And it has long been on some conservatives’ wish list to kneecap the external civil rights work of the Labor Department’s contract compliance office, which for decades has audited the nation’s largest contractors — including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Deloitte — to ensure fair pay and hiring.
Plans obtained by The Post show the office will maintain 50 employees to enforce discrimination law for veterans and workers with disabilities, but it will no longer be staffed to audit companies for pay and hiring disparities for women and minority workers. Much of that work had been halted since Tr-ump last month overturned an antidiscrimination order signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, which established the office’s primary mission 60 years ago.
The erosion of private-sector guardrails is likely to deter people from reporting mistreatment, said Jenny Yang, who served as director of the agency during the Biden administration and presided over investigations of multiple large firms over gender pay disparities and hiring discrimination.
“They’re concerned about retaliation. They could lose their jobs,” Yang said. “And the real power of the OFCCP is that it required federal contractors to engage in proactive barrier analysis to really prevent discrimination.”
HAVE YOU BEEN AFFECTED BY THE DISMANTLING OF THESE OFFICES? GET IN TOUCH. WE WILL USE SECURE SOURCING PRACTICES AND RESPECT AND HONOR REQUESTS FOR ANONYMITY.
Hannah Natanson: (202) 580-5477 on Signal or hannah.natanson@washpost.com
Julian Mark: 415-825-0659 on Signal or julian.mark@washpost.com
The Social Security Administration this week announced it was closing its Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity, where about 150 people worked investigating civil rights complaints, preventing harassment and ensuring accommodations for people with disabilities, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
Leaders at the Labor Department are planning to cut by 90 percent the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which for decades has worked to ensure that government contractors took affirmative action to end discrimination at their firms, documents obtained by The Washington Post show. The Federal Trade Commission, meanwhile, has halved its internal equal employment opportunity office to three employees from six, and similar moves have taken place at NASA, where most information about how to file complaints has been removed from its websites.
The moves signal the Tr-ump administration’s intent to deliver on U.S. D.O.G.E. Service plans for workforce cuts laid out in a series of documents obtained by The Post, which initially contemplated eliminating the civil rights functions altogether in violation of federal law.
The in-agency equal opportunity offices are mandated by statute to ensure that employees receive equal opportunity “regardless of race, sex, national origin, color, religion, disability or reprisal for engaging in prior protected activity” and have been viewed with skepticism by the administration, which has sought to purge the federal government of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in furtherance of President Donald Tr-ump’s goal “to forge a color-blind and merit-based” society.
And it has long been on some conservatives’ wish list to kneecap the external civil rights work of the Labor Department’s contract compliance office, which for decades has audited the nation’s largest contractors — including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Deloitte — to ensure fair pay and hiring.
Plans obtained by The Post show the office will maintain 50 employees to enforce discrimination law for veterans and workers with disabilities, but it will no longer be staffed to audit companies for pay and hiring disparities for women and minority workers. Much of that work had been halted since Tr-ump last month overturned an antidiscrimination order signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, which established the office’s primary mission 60 years ago.
The erosion of private-sector guardrails is likely to deter people from reporting mistreatment, said Jenny Yang, who served as director of the agency during the Biden administration and presided over investigations of multiple large firms over gender pay disparities and hiring discrimination.
“They’re concerned about retaliation. They could lose their jobs,” Yang said. “And the real power of the OFCCP is that it required federal contractors to engage in proactive barrier analysis to really prevent discrimination.”
HAVE YOU BEEN AFFECTED BY THE DISMANTLING OF THESE OFFICES? GET IN TOUCH. WE WILL USE SECURE SOURCING PRACTICES AND RESPECT AND HONOR REQUESTS FOR ANONYMITY.
Hannah Natanson: (202) 580-5477 on Signal or hannah.natanson@washpost.com
Julian Mark: 415-825-0659 on Signal or julian.mark@washpost.com
“At least with Trump we have a chance.”
Aiight, so we gonna see up close what its like to be in the same boat as the people who fought for civil rights SIXTY YEARS AGO!
Aiight, so we gonna see up close what its like to be in the same boat as the people who fought for civil rights SIXTY YEARS AGO!
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Some of yall really don't understand white supremacy. They are literally reversing the clock to the 50's.
Hard lessons are going to be learned
What makes it crazy when you have black people supporting this regime
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
Nice try. Trying to distract us from the things that are really important. Like how Kamala Harris prepares collard greens and where her grandparents are from.
Is it required by law or not?
And if it is, who challenging them on this?
And if it is, who challenging them on this?
Democrats and different orgs are going to take them to court but that's all they can do. Until congress, and that's including Republicans, do something legislatively, there is no stopping Trump. We have been voted into irresistible tangible territory. He's giving it to us whether we like it or not.
shyt looks insane
NotAnFBIagent
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Nothing secret about it
Rick Fox at UNC
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What are you going to do about it?
