Companies providing goods and services to the federal government have few legal avenues to challenge potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of contract cancellations coming as soon as Friday.
A federal agency overseeing government contracts plans to make recent federal DEI bans applicable to past agreements with private contractors.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reviewing consulting firms' work with the federal government and asking companies to break down their agency contracts.
Powder & Protective Coatings is suspected of knowingly hiring workers without legal authorization, according to court records
Kennelly's ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by Chicago Women in Trades, a nonprofit with several contracts with the Department of Labor.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program has until April to verify all federal contractors have "wound down their use of affirmative action plans."
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President Trump's latest DEI directive repeals an executive order on nondiscrimination signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, which explicitly prohibited segregated facilities in federal contracts.
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