reading.writing.revolution

the world in pictures and words

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Trump Admin Quietly Rolls Back Decades-Old Guidance — And 'It Sends A Really Scary Message'

The memo to help employers had been in place since 1979. Not anymore.

Nathalie Baptiste at HuffPost:

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Monday to rescind decades-old guidance that helps employers ensure their workplace is equitable and inclusive. In a press release the next day, the agency claimed the guidance had violated civil rights law and Supreme Court precedence, referring to a unanimous high court decision from last year that made “reverse discrimination” easier to prove. “As our nation approaches its 250th birthday, we are reminded that the Founders’ vision rested on the enduring principle that every individual is created equal and therefore is entitled to equal treatment under the law,” EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas said in a statement. “This week’s action reaffirms that Title VII’s protections apply equally to all American workers and that equal opportunity remains a defining commitment of our democracy.” There was no public comment period, even though agencies typically do ask the public for their input.

In 1979, the EEOC issued a memo for employers who wanted to comply with affirmative action laws that mandated making the workplace more equitable, while still not violating civil rights laws. The rule was called the “Affirmative Action Appropriate Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Amended,” referencing the section of the landmark legislation that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex or national origin. “The EEOC is choosing to get rid of a tool that is intended to help remedy discrimination to try and reduce barriers to opportunity so that workers can have a fair chance to compete for jobs based on their qualifications and merit and not be excluded because of who they are,” said Katie Sandson, senior counsel on education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center. For example, she said, if a university’s employment practices were leading to an underrepresented and underpaid group among its faculty, they could turn to the memo to help figure out how to address the issue.

[...] The EEOC was created in 1964 as part of the Civil Rights Act to fight workplace discrimination, but there has been a drastic shift in what kind of complaints the agency has been focusing on since Donald Trump returned to office. Experts say this week’s rescission is just another way for the Trump administration to dismantle civil rights laws that protect workers from discrimination.

“We see this as part of the larger attack by the federal government on anything that they consider to be promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility ― the basic values that underlie our civil rights laws,” Sandon said. “We’ve seen those values under attack from day one of this administration.” The Trump administration has indeed been chipping away at anything it perceives to boost diversity, equity and inclusion. The phrase has become a catch-all for programs at workplaces, schools and public institutes that deal with racial or gender equity. The federal government has barred agencies and departments from using words like diversity and equity, and threatened to pull funding from states with DEI programs, and Trump has repeatedly trashed racial equality programs.

The Trump Regime’s EEOC continues its remake into White male entitlement central by voting to rescind decades-old guidance designed to ensure a workplace is equitable and inclusive.

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The Trump Regime is rescinding rules to enable rampant corruption, discrimination and exclusion. Keep letting this happen and pretty soon you'll be paying bribe money for every fucking thing you do.

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[jilli1205]

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Eventually people are going to die from this. But, on the brighter side, when you burn the data center down, there will be no water to put the fire out.

[cosmicretreat]

One of the mysteries is that as unlike as we are, one human being from another, we also share much in common. Our lives begin the same way, by birth. The love and interdependence of parents and children are universal, and so are the many difficulties parents and children have in becoming separate from one another. As we grow, we laugh and cry at many of the same things, and fear many of the same things. At the end, we all leave the same way - by death. Yet no two threads - no two lives - in that vast tapestry of existence have ever been, or will ever be, the same.

Fred Rogers

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[azspot]

In order to ward off backlash against AI and curry favor with the Trump administration, Sam Altman has floated the idea of giving 5% of OpenAI to a wealth fund that pays dividends to both the government and citizens

AI, surveillance, open tech, and news as a business.

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If a sector can’t succeed without real damage to working communities, then it must not be allowed to exist.

[raygun631]

[oversorted]

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This is me

[secularsasquatch]

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Fuck yeah

[ladytuarach]

[bowlby4]

[artdetrump]

[porterdavis]

This is perverse and obscene.

[politicalantibody]

Of course they denied all those claims. It made them more money, and it wasn’t illegal. Corporations are amoral by nature, and healthcare is not an exception.

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American healthcare companies are not there to make you well. They are there to make money.

[oversorted]

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I've been doing this more and more. I lay in bed in the afternoon and do nothing, then nap - maybe an hour at most. But nothing. And I'm going to bed earlier on the regular now. Less is more. Nothing is a luxury everyone should be able to afford.

[mommahoney]

Jan. 6

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