For example, certain federal contractors have special legal obligations when it comes to combating workplace discrimination. A notable example includes the steps the contractor must take to prevent ...

President Trump has tried to scale back anti-discrimination regulations that date back decades. Federal agencies have heeded ...

Illinois SB 3777 could reshape disparate impact challenges involving hiring criteria, criminal history screening standards, and AI-assisted hiring tools.

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with discriminatory impacts that are often unintended. Curbing so-called ...

Over the past year and a half, the federal government has pulled back its disparate-impact regulations and enforcement while confirming that ...

A new Office of Legal Counsel opinion says disparate impact rules pushed employers to treat workers as members of racial groups rather than individuals.

Even as the government shutdown stalls work in Washington, D.C., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is taking additional steps to undermine its mission. The primary federal agency charged by ...

On Wednesday, April 23, 2025, President Trump signed EO 14281, titled Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy (EO), stating a new Trump Administration policy “to eliminate the use of ...

Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, arrives to testify in a House Financial Services Committee hearing. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) By signing up, ...

The U.S. civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights will stop investigating complaints about company policies that don’t explicitly discriminate but may disproportionately harm ...

The threat to disparate impact analysis places our country at a crossroads. One path leads to public health scholarship and court practices that acknowledge and seek to overcome structural bias. The ...