Biography of president lyndon johnson
Biography of president lyndon johnson
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US federal government contractors are no longer subject to anti-discrimination rules over hiring, training, and employment – after President Trump reached back 60 years to scrap an equal opportunity order signed by former President Lyndon B.
Johnson.
In an executive order published today, Trump rescinded several prior executive orders linked to promoting diversity in the federal government and government contractor workforce, with EO 11246, signed in September 1965, the most longstanding order to be scrapped.
Johnson's Equal Employment Opportunity EO prohibited any federal contractor and federally assisted construction contractor/subcontractor doing more than $10,000 in business with the US government from discriminating against employees or applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.
Sexual orientation and gender identity were added by President Barack Obama with EO 13672 in 2014. The latter EO was also plowed under in Trump's action.
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