The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered paid leave for all federal employees working on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts as the agency grapples with the closure of DEI offices.
Office of Personnel Management — the government’s highest human resources agency — Notify federal department head The memo states that DEI program employees must be notified of administrative leave “effective immediately” by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
The memo also requires federal agencies to remove all “outward-facing media” such as web pages and social media accounts that focus on DEI programs, discontinue diversity training for all employees, and commit to the same deadline. The company has ordered that DEI-related contracts be terminated by
OPM also requires agency heads to “ask employees” if they are aware of efforts to “disguise” DEI programs in “encrypted or imprecise language” and to obfuscate efforts. The government requested that the results of the investigation into the attempt to change the information be submitted by January 31st.
Employees who fail to report DEI programs, which may have been renamed to avoid the Trump administration's widely expected move to water down diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, will be subject to “adverse consequences.” OPM warns that you may face
By the end of the month, OPM is also seeking “written plans” from all federal agencies on how to implement “reduction measures with respect to employees working in DEIA offices.”
The letter was sent in response to President Trump's first-day executive order directing federal agencies to eliminate “illegal and immoral discriminatory programs” promoted by the Biden administration.
President Trump's order condemns the DEI program that the Biden administration has introduced across government to promote racial and environmental “justice” as discriminatory and a “colossal public waste.”
OPM's DEI memo was released on the same day the White House announced that the president would order the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration to “immediately return to nondiscriminatory, merit-based hiring.”
In a statement, Trump claimed: “Keeping Americans Safe on Air” This measure will ensure that all FAA employees are “competent to perform their duties to the highest possible standards of excellence.”
President Trump said that under the Biden administration, the FAA has “betrayed its mission by elevating dangerous discrimination over excellence” and that it has “betrayed its mission by elevating dangerous discrimination over excellence.” “They tried to specifically recruit and hire individuals.”
“The Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administrator shall review the past performance and performance standards of all individuals in critical safety positions and identify individuals who have failed or failed to perform in critical safety positions as All appropriate steps shall be taken to ensure that he is replaced in the senior position by a person who is capable of ensuring first-class aviation safety and efficiency,'' the President said.
The private sector is already in the process of withdrawing from DEI programs following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University, which dealt with the use of race in college admissions decisions. .
For example, tech giants Meta and Amazon have recently moved to eliminate DEI initiatives.
McDonald's, Walmart, Ford Motor Company, Molson Coors, Jack Daniel's parent company Brown-Forman, Boeing, and Harley-Davidson are also scaling back their focus on DEI.