Though it received less attention than some of President Donald Trumps other executive orders, the principles embodied in EO 14281, "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy," are fundamental ...

The loss of disparate impact protections removes one of the only tools workers have to challenge discrimination caused by AI.

President Trump signed Executive Order 14281, “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy on April 23, 2025”. The EO proclaims a policy goal of eliminating “the use of disparate-impact ...

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies, opens new tab not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive order that strips the federal government of the key tool it used to enforce ...

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 ...

The agency is unlawfully giving up on fighting disparate impact discrimination—meaning it’s “open season” on employees. Ad Policy Amazon delivery driver Leah Cross has alleged that Amazon’s delivery ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - SEPTEMBER 07: From a ground view, the exterior of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is seen on September 07, 2022. This story was originally published on HR Dive. To ...

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has rewritten a decades-old provision of civil rights law that allows for statistical disparities to be used as proof of discrimination. The DOJ’s decision to ...

Though it received less attention than some of President Donald Trump’s other executive orders, the principles embodied in EO 14281, “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy,” are ...