Agencies throughout the entire Federal Government are looking for offices that enforce civil and anti -discrimination rights under Trump’s rule to strive to reduce the workforce, weakening the government’s ability to satisfy legal obligations in the scope of protecting employees’ rights.
This week, the social security administration announced that they are closing the Bureau of Civil Rights and equal opportunities in which about 150 people worked in the study of complaints about civil rights, preventing the harassment and provision of accommodation for disabled people, according to two people familiar with the case that she spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retaliation.
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Leaders from the Labor Department plan to reduce the office of federal compliance programs by 90 percent, which for decades work to ensure that government contractors have taken affirmative actions to put the end of discrimination in their companies, documents obtained by Washington Post Show. Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission by half the Internal Office for the Employment of Three employees of six, and similar moves took place in NASA, where most of the information on how to lodge complaints from websites.
Movements will signal the intention of Trump’s administration to implement the US service plans for the Doge for cuts specified in a series of documents obtained by the position, which initially considered completely eliminating civil rights functions in violation of federal law.
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Equality offices in agencies are authorized by the Act Make sure employees receive equal opportunities “regardless of breed, sex, national origin, color, religion, disability or repression for their involvement in prior protected activity” and were perceived with skepticism by the administration, which tried to cleanse the government of diversity, equality and initiative of inclusion in terms of the further purpose of President Donald Trump “in order to develop color and merit.
And for a long time it was on the wish list of some conservatives, so that the knees external works of civil rights in the office of the Labor Department, which for decades controlled the largest contractors in the country – including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Deloitte – to ensure fair remuneration and employment.
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The plans obtained by The Post Show The Office will maintain 50 employees to enforce the right of discrimination for veterans and disabled employees, but will no longer be served by companies for remuneration and employing differences for women and minority employees. Many of these works have been detained since Trump last month lifted the anti -discrimination order signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, who established the basic mission of the office 60 years ago.
Jenny Yang, who was the director of the agency during Biden administration and chaired the study of many large companies in the private sector, will probably discourage people from reporting bad treatment and discrimination in the field of sexual salary.
“He is worried about retaliation. They can lose their jobs – said Yang. “The real strength of OFCCP is that it required federal contractors involved in a proactive analysis of barriers to really prevent discrimination.”
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Legal experts have found that basting from civil rights designed to protect employees’ rights removes key control of institutional power. The basis of such provisions began with the Act on civic rights of 1964, which banned discrimination in employment and tried to promote integration largely segregated work in the USA. Basic provisions regarding the protection of employees against discrimination and harassment apply, and the Commission for Equal Employment opportunities – the main enforcement of these provisions – did not announce a vast reduction in the workforce.
But the attack on equal employment offices in the federal government concerns, said Larry Stein, a federal employment lawyer, noting that they are required by civil rights and a key extension of their rules.
“Damage to federal employees will occur when these inaccurate EEO offices are unable to process EEO complaints in a timely manner, which will allow you to continue the behavior of discriminating federal managers,” said Stein.
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He added that movements can have a huge impact on minorities, women, LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups in the federal government and arrive, because all federal employees need more protection during quick transformation of the workforce. “The goal here is to discourage EEO’s complaints at the beginning by adding a limited delay to the process that has been going too long,” said Stein.
Lee Dudek, acting on the Commissioner for Social Insurance, gave up the EEO agency office as a means of performance in the declaration announcing the decision. “The end of the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Shak and re -supplementing the statutory obligations performed by this office manages the President’s goal, that the entire government is more efficient in the service of American public opinion,” he said.
The office did not immediately answer questions about how work will be redistributed.
Doge-Department of Government Efficiency, although this is not an agency at the level of the office-it is planning to launch the offices of federal agencies that began before Trump’s swearing in, documents obtained by The Post Show. He documents these dozens of offices that protect employees’ civil rights or investigate claims regarding employment discrimination in a federal workplace for possible cuts to facilitate Trump to make campaign promises to reduce by 2.3 million personal civil service.
Documents show that Doge was intended to identify the members of the required offices who could be associated with the efforts of diversity. The Doge document called such workers “damaged branches”. Doge planned the administration to first put such employees on vacation, and then release them by reducing the operation of strength – a governmental form of dismissals.
The documents show that during this process the planners found the need to find a legal justification for such exemptions.
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Doge intended to administration to introduce finishes in the offices required by law between 31 and 180 day of Trump’s presidency: from mid -February to mid -July. Cutting in NASA and Social Security, which were replaced at aiming in the Doge spreadsheet, appeared according to the schedule.
According to Stein, a lawyer, although much smaller than cuts at the Social Insurance Agency, the EEO office in the Federal Trade Commission has been reduced. A few days after the inauguration of Trump, the office was completely closed According to the documents checked by the position, with his functions transferred to the agency’s legal advisor office. According to Stein, this movement was contrary to federal law.
Since then, he has been restored to the office with three employees, according to Stein, half of the previous number.
FTC refused to comment.
Nick Bednar, a professor of law of the University of Minnesota, said that the EEO offices “play a significant role in protecting individual employees against discrimination and management of workforce culture.”
“Many of these agencies are required by the Act and by looking at these agencies, they are not able to perform these obligations [are] Placed on them, and morale in the working force will spread quite quickly – added Bednar.
The changes meant that some employees confused where to solve their fears regarding civil rights.
At NASA, one employee discovered that her contact with an equal employment office was dismissed when she tried to send an e -mail message to the employee with a request this week. E -Mail returned to the information that the employee “was not found in NASA.GOV”, according to a copy of the message obtained by the post.
NASA spokesman said the post that lowering the EEO office and deleting information on his websites They are to follow Trump’s executive orders.
An employee of the social insurance administration who used a closed office to help move in disability, said that she did not receive a notification of an internal change, and instead discovered by browsing public sources of news.
Speaking provided anonymity for fear of retaliation, she described contact with her colleagues and manager for whom she had personal contact details; She was too scared to ask questions on internal platforms. The supervisor did not have additional information.
“My reaction is shock and anger,” she said, adding that she has accommodation that will have to be renovated in a few months. “As a disabled employee, I don’t have a kind of word for this. I want to cry. “
