Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Nike faces federal probe over allegations of ‘DEI-related’ discrimination against white workers The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission revealed Wednesday that it is investigating Nike for allegedly discriminating against white employees through its diversity policies. Read more.

Why this matters: EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas has moved swiftly to target diversity and inclusion policies that she has long criticized as potentially discriminatory, tightly aligning the agency with one of President Donald Trump’s top priorities. The federal agency sought the company’s criteria for selecting employees for layoffs, how it tracks and uses worker race and ethnicity data, and information about programs which allegedly provided race-restricted mentoring, leadership, or career development opportunities, according to court documents.   Nike appears to be the highest profile company the EEOC has targeted with a publicly confirmed, formal anti-DEI investigation. It does not stem from any worker complaint against the company. In a statement, Nike said the company follows “all applicable laws,” has worked to cooperate with the EEOC and the subpoena “feels like a surprising and unusual escalation.”

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A more diverse workforce isn’t ‘DEI-motivated discrimination’—it’s just demographic change

How Trump is weaponizing the EEOC against the workers it was built to protect

https://www.epi.org/blog/a-more-diverse-workforce-isnt-dei-motivated-discrimination-its-just-demographic-change-how-trump-is-weaponizing-the-eeoc-against-the-workers-it-was-built-to-protect/?