A new Office of Legal Counsel opinion says disparate impact rules pushed employers to treat workers as members of racial ...

For example, certain federal contractors have special legal obligations when it comes to combating workplace discrimination. A notable example includes the steps the contractor must take to prevent ...

The push against disparate impact liability has been a focus of the Trump administration. President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April 2025 directing federal agencies, including EEOC, to ...

In a step forward for the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion policies in businesses, the Justice Department said guidelines holding employers liable for hiring ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Tuesday accused the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under previous presidential administrations of violating civil rights laws through its guidelines ...

The disparate impact theory has long been used to argue that an employer’s facially neutral policy has a detrimental effect on a protected class of individuals. An often cited example is the use of an ...

Measured in Trump time, it took eons to announce — but the White House has finally taken the most important step it can to restore meritocracy to American society: eliminating disparate-impact theory ...

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called ...

As we have previously reported, an early focus of the second Trump administration has been to oppose and dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, both in the federal government ...

Even as the government shutdown stalls work in Washington, D.C., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is taking additional steps to undermine its mission. The primary federal agency charged by ...

The U.S. civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights will stop investigating complaints about company policies that don’t explicitly discriminate but may disproportionately harm ...