President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a notice to all federal Diversity, Equity, Inclusiveness, and Antiracism (DEIA) offices. They are to shutter operations by 5 pm Wednesday, January 22. Workers will be immediately placed on paid leave until further notice.
According to the notice issued by Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell, all departments and agencies are to:
- Send an agency-wide notice to employees informing them of the closure and asking employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language
- Send a notification to all employees of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) offices that they are being placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately as the agency takes steps to close/end all DEIA initiatives, offices and programs.
- Take down all outward facing media (websites, social media accounts, etc.) of DEIA offices
- Withdraw any final or pending documents, directives, orders, materials and equity plans issued by the agency in response to the now-repealed Executive Order 14035, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce (June 25, 2021)
- Cancel any DEIA-related trainings and terminate any DEIA-related contractors
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