The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.

President Donald Trump has fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency that enforces civil rights ...

Charlotte A. Burrows, a former EEOC commissioner, says she will "explore all legal options" after being removed by Trump.

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has fired at least two Democratic members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces federal laws banning workplace discrimination, in an ...

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...

Leaders of far-right militia groups and other US Capitol rioters who were convicted of violently assaulting police were freed ...

Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...

Many underrepresented people who built successful government careers credited those laws and their enforcement with expanding the path to prosperity.

As eyes turned toward Washington this week and what employers anticipate on a range of labor and employment law issues, ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Following President ... order is to " end illegal preferences and discrimination." The Equal Employment Opportunity Act was established under Executive Order 11246 on ...

The federal agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination, the EEOC describes itself as a bipartisan commission ...