Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban received a harsh reprimand from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for misunderstanding how DEI interacts with federal employment regulations.
The Cuban president has been under the spotlight for much of the last two weeks for loudly and proudly espousing far-left ideals of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in the business world, and for insisting that DEI policies are not actually racial. I’ve been hiding it. -Base ideal.
He has been at odds on social media with many people, including Secretary of State Elon Musk, who has sharply argued that DEI is nothing but legalized “racism.”
However, Cuban continued to support left-wing employment policies, even though he lost many points battles. Last weekend, he responded to an I got back to the topic again.
“I have never hired someone solely because of their race, gender or religion. I only hire those who will put my business in the best position to succeed,” he added. I did. “And yes, race and gender can be part of the equation. I think diversity is a competitive advantage.”
However, this claim that he was including gender and race as one of the criteria for employment prompted the Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to intervene and argue that if he really was It warned that it would actually be a violation of federal employment law. Even in part, it’s about race and gender.
EEOC Commissioner Andrea R. Lucas jumped into X’s conversation and warned that Cuban’s claims are “completely false.”
“The EEOC Commissioner is here,” she said in a Jan. 29 post to Cuba. “Unfortunately, you are completely wrong about the black-letter Title VII law. As a general rule, race and gender cannot even be “motivating factors.” Nor can it be a positive factor, a tie, or a turning point. It is important that employers understand the ground rules here. ”
@mcuban, the EEOC Commissioner is here. Unfortunately, you are completely wrong about the black-letter Title VII law. As a general rule, race or gender cannot even be a “motivating factor” and cannot be a positive factor, tie, or tipping point. It is important that employers understand the ground rules here.
— Andrea R. Lucas (@andrealucasEEOC) January 29, 2024
Mr. Lucas later joined the Fox Business Network to explain the law in detail.
“If an employer, whether private or public, uses race, gender, or any other protected characteristic, particularly race or gender, as a factor in the decision-making process for employment decisions, that employer may If the employee violates the “Second Edition,” Lucas said, “any aggrieved employee can file a complaint with the EEOC, and then, if they have the right to sue, they can sue in federal court.” Stated. Said network.
“The goal itself is not prohibited,” Lucas added. “However, if race, gender, or other protected characteristics are shown to be used as factors in decision-making, they could end up breaking the law or being used as evidence of a violation of the law. There are a lot of quotas because quotas are absolutely in direct violation of Title VII because they indicate that the goal is a real requirement or a hard goal, to hire this number of people or to promote this number of people. If there is, that’s totally facesitting. A violation of Title VII.”
“So I think a lot of people hear the words diversity, equity and inclusion and they all sound like great concepts,” she said. “I like equity. Who doesn’t like equity? I like equality. What’s wrong with equity? But the emphasis has shifted from equal employment opportunity to equity. There is a reason. Words have meaning, and fairness and equality are not the same concept.”
Still, even the Cuban player’s own team CEO seemed to acknowledge that hiring decisions based solely on race and gender violated employment laws.
In a 2020 video, Mavericks CEO Sint Marshall said he fired white men just because they were white men and fired women and minorities just because he wanted “diversity” in the company. admits to having employed
Mark Cuban is lying. The CEO he hired specifically admitted to firing/hiring Dallas Maverick employees based on race and gender.
This was part of a highly transparent 100-day DEI initiative that included daily mandatory bias training for employees.
The NBA… pic.twitter.com/rSjmhRuA30
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) January 29, 2024
Mr. Marshall’s admission is a direct rebuttal to Mr. Cuban’s assertion that his DEI employment policies are not actually race-based and are not exclusive.
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