” revokes Executive Order 11246 signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. It prohibited discriminatory practices in hiring and employment in government contracting and asserted the government’s commitment to affirmative action. Trump’s order says that his action “protects the civil rights ...
In anexecutive orderpublished today, Trump rescinded several prior executive orders linked to promoting diversity in the federal government and government contractor workforce, withEO 11246, signed in September 1965, the most longstanding order to be scrapped. Johnson's Equal Employment Opportunity EOpro...
A sweeping Trump executive order has left federal contractors and the US Labor Department office that polices their anti-bias efforts in limbo after the president stripped the sub-agency of much of its power. PresidentDonald Trumplate Tuesday night revokedthe 1965 executive order that authorize...
” revokes Executive Order 11246 signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. It prohibited discriminatory practices in hiring and employment in government contracting and asserted the government’s commitment to affirmative action.