Federal anti-discrimination practices are now no longer in the United States. First enacted by way of Executive Order 11246 by the previous President Lyndon B. Johnson they have all now been revoked.
The Lowdown
According to a new order signed by Donald Trump, the previous executive order establishing anti-discrimination practices among federal contractors and employees has been revoked. It is the latest in questionable executive orders that appear to open the door to discrimination. The order had established the Department of Labor’s efforts with a contracting standards office.
In its whole the order was meant as a course of action for the federal government to address and rectify discrimination in the workplace. Federal contractors who took any form of money were barred from discriminating based on sex and so on. It was originally signed the year after the Civil Rights Movement, and almost word-for-word calls for ‘affirmative action’ among all hiring practices as part of the federal government.