Tag: DEI
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How should construction companies handle DEI under Trump?
Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Attorney Neil C. Schur is a litigator and shareholder in Anderson Kill’s Philadelphia office. He is a member of the firm’s Employment & Labor Group. Opinions are the author’s own. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s…
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With DEI under fire, Construction Inclusion Week will focus on recruitment
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Through its first five months, 2025 has not been kind to diversity, equity and inclusion. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting “wasteful government DEI programs” in which his administration…
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DOT will cut funds to transportation projects with DEI: Duffy
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: In an April 24 letter, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned DOT funding recipients against engaging in diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which he said violate federal law. Duffy also told grantees that they must cooperate…
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Women’s trade organization granted temporary restraining order in DOL, Trump DEI case
The face of diversity, equity and inclusion continues to change with a recent victory by Chicago Women in Trades. A judge granted CWIT a temporary restraining order on March 27 in its case against President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders. Initially, the nonprofit, which seeks to amplify the presence of tradeswomen in their industries, filed…
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How are C-suites reacting to Trump’s DEI orders?
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Only 8% of C-suite leaders surveyed say they are seriously considering changing their diversity, equity and inclusion programs as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting DEI, according to a Feb. 26 report from Littler.…
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Trump orders agencies to target private-sector DEI
Dive Brief: The White House published an executive order Tuesday that directs the heads of agencies, in cooperation with the attorney general, to submit a report by May 21 with recommendations to “encourage the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including DEI.” Per the order, the report should include key sectors of concern…