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Senators challenge Trump order banning some diversity training concepts Smith, Klobuchar join 21 senators challenging Trump executive order.  December 22, 2020 — 7:50pm Text size Copy shortlink: Minnesota's two U.S. senators are calling for the federal government to stop enforcing a Trump administration executive order banning certain words and concepts from diversity training for federal workers and contractors. Democrats Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar are among the most recent to publicly challenge the order, signing onto a lette...

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 06:47 UTC It's virtually certain that a Biden administration will not maintain President Trump's executive order that was issued in response to using Critical Race Theory in employee training circumstances in federal agencies and contractors ("Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping"). I think that, if anything, can be assumed with very high confidence. There are a number of important points to make about this issue, then. I want to list four important points about the order, the ideas it contains, and the environment we find ourselves in around it. These are: ...

Predictions from our attorneys in the practice areas that affect employers. NOTE FROM ROBIN: The following went out as a legal bulletin on Thursday. I'm reproducing it here for those of you who do not subscribe to our bulletins. My most sincere thanks to all of the attorneys who contributed to this! EDITOR’S NOTE: This week, the Electoral College confirmed the election of Joseph R. Biden as President. We asked our practice group heads and subject matter experts to provide their views on what a Biden Administration will mean for employers. Affirmative Action/Office of Federal Contract Compli...

The training at Sandia gained public attention in August after some materials from a 2019 workshop were shared with Christopher Rufo of the Discovery Institute (a Seattle-based conservative think tank,) who publicized them on his personal website. The organization that conducted that training, White Men as Full Diversity Partners (WMFDP), describes on its website their “provocative approach to engaging white male business leaders in inclusion efforts” acknowledging that the labor of promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace often falls disproportionately onto women and peopl...

(RNS) — On Sunday, evangelical leader Beth Moore tweeted about the Jericho March, a pro-Trump bacchanal of racism and violence held in Washington, D.C., this weekend. “I do not believe these are days for mincing words,” she wrote. “I’m 63 1/2 years old & I have never seen anything in these United States of America I found more astonishingly seductive & dangerous to the saints of God than Trumpism. This Christian nationalism is not of God. Move back from it.” It’s about time. But it’s too late. Moore, David French, Michael Gerson and other evangelical writers have been wringing...