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"Executive Order Bans Certain Diversity Trainings for Federal Contractors — May Also Impact Private Employers," Jones Walker LLP Labor & Employment Client Alert

By Jennifer Faroldi Kogos, Jacob J. Pritt

Client Alert

October 27, 2020

On September 22, the president issued an Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, which prohibits certain types of diversity trainings for federal employees and federal contractors. The Order prohibits federal contractors from using “any workplace training that inculcates in its employees any form of race or sex stereotyping or any form of race or sex scapegoating.” The prohibition on these types of training applies to any training that would ascribe “character traits, values, moral and ethical codes, privileges, status, or beliefs to a race or sex.” Continue reading >

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