Baronvonrort wrote on Jan 21
st, 2025 at 5:18pm:
Quote:Looks like the days of selecting people on diversity because they're lesbian or tinted are over.
Back to merit based selections.
US President Donald Trump has put on leave all federal employees in offices focusing on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) programmes and initiatives.
The order was issued by the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Tuesday and confirmed by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on the same day.
It required all agency heads to inform employees of DEIA offices that they would be placed on paid administrative leave as the agency takes steps to end all DEIA initiatives, offices, and programmes.
It also ordered them to take down all websites and social media accounts of DEIA offices.
By January 31, all agency heads are expected to submit a written plan for a "reduction-in-force action" regarding the employees in DEIA offices, according to the OPM.
"Agencies should coordinate with OPM in preparing these plans," the order read, as first reported by CBS News.
Ending all DEI programs
The instructions come as Trump ordered the termination of DEIA mandates, policies, programmes, preferences, and activities in the Federal government in an executive order on Monday.
"Federal employment practices, including Federal employee performance reviews, shall reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and shall not under any circumstances consider DEI or DEIA factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements," the order read.
He also ordered the termination of:
- all DEI, DEIA and "environmental justice" offices and positions (including but not limited to 'Chief Diversity Officer' positions)
- all "equity action plans," "equity" actions, initiatives, or programs
- "equity-related" grants or contracts
- all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees, contractors, or grantees.
You go, you good thing. ( can I say that? )