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For sixty years, under Executive Order 11246, federal contractors were forced to follow a rigid affirmative action system that privileged identity-based quotas over qualifications.

This meant:

• Employers had to hire and promote based on race or sex, not ability.
• Burdensome statistical analysis to determine how many women and minorities were being hired and let go.
• Placement goals functioned as de facto quotas, pressuring companies to meet diversity targets.

Fortunately, President Trump rescinded this executive order earlier this year to ensure that merit and business need, rather than arbitrary job categories and demographic data, would drive hiring goals.

Now, it’s on the Department of Labor to rescind this entire affirmative action regime—and it has proposed a rule to do so.

If finalized, this rule would:

• End race- and sex-based mandates for federal contractors.
• Eliminate arbitrary workforce benchmarks and placement goals for women and minorities.
• Restore fairness, merit, and flexibility in federal contracting.

The old system laid the groundwork for today’s DEI overreach. It’s time to get back to true equal opportunity—without government-imposed identity politics getting in the way of employers or employees.

Now is the time to speak up: We have until September 17th at 11:59 PM ET to weigh in. 

Use the form to easily submit a comment directly to the Department of Labor and urge them to move forward with this important rule.

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