New York
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The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is probing Nike in response to unspecified allegations that the corporate discriminates against White employees, the agency mentioned Wednesday.
The agency mentioned it’s investigating potential discrimination against White employees which will have occurred partly as a result of “NIKE’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-related 2025 Targets and other DEI-related objectives.”
The subpoena enforcement motion is one other signal of a shift in views on discrimination underneath the Trump administration, which has sought to finish range initiatives and as a substitute study whether or not such packages unfairly goal White folks.
“Thanks to President Trump’s commitment to enforcing our nation’s civil rights laws, the EEOC has renewed its focus on evenhanded enforcement of Title VII,” EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas mentioned in an announcement.
The EEOC mentioned it’s requesting data from Nike going again to 2018. That data consists of “criteria used in selecting employees for layoffs; information related to the company’s tracking and use of worker race and ethnicity data, including as a factor in setting executive compensation; and information about 16 programs which allegedly provided race-restricted mentoring, leadership, or career development opportunities.”
The EEOC mentioned the agency filed the enforcement motion after Nike did not voluntarily present all the knowledge required by the subpoena. NCS reached out to Nike for remark.