Republican state officials threaten legal action over company diversity policies

[groundloop]

Source: Reuters

A group of Republican U.S. state attorney generals on Thursday warned the country's largest companies that certain workforce diversity policies could be illegal in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision effectively striking down affirmative action in higher education.

The 13 officials in letters sent to the 100 largest U.S. companies said the court last month made clear that any policy that treats people differently because of their race is illegal, even when it is adopted with good intentions.

The attorney generals urged the companies to abandon race-based quotas or preferences in hiring, promotion and contracting and threatened legal action "sooner rather than later" if they do not.

"Companies that engage in racial discrimination should and will face serious legal consequences," the attorney generals wrote.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-state-officials-threaten-legal-action-over-company-diversity-policies-2023-07-13/

[c-rational]

1. The lunacy this SC has wrought is mind numbing. To not see these issues coming is telling of

their blind ideology.

[Lonestarblue]

12. They saw them coming. Their goal of white privilege is being achieved.

[slightlv]

2. So there generalizing one situation unto all others?

it was struck down in education... so they're generalizing it unto ALL situations in life? This sounds like where it's going. Surely that SCOTUS ruling wasn't that generalized?

[Lonestarblue]

3. White people, we must elevate white people.

They’re threatened with extinction! Republicans today are total idiots.

[TomDaisy]

4. they are coming for our throats

[Karadeniz]

5. Wow!!! Trying to control privately owned companies !!

[trof]

6. Oh Reuters! It's 'attorneys general'.

TSK TSK
You should know better.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. But her emails

[Novara]

8. Privately funded companies vs Universities that take federal money

They're the exact same thing!

[Botany]

9. Going after privatly run companies and what internal rules those companies set?

Either the GOP knows they are gonna rig the elections or they want to loose by 20 million votes this time.

[cojoel]

10. All of those companies

need to seriously consider closing their operations in those states and moving them to states that are more accomodating to business.

[moniss]

11. That would be my precise response

if I were the CEO. In addition I would inform them that I have ordered a top to bottom assessment of all business we conduct with the state and creation of a schedule for termination of that business. Lastly I would inform them that our purchasing would now look to avoid businesses from those states. I would close my letter by indicating that I have also directed that our philanthropic activities in those states will terminate with those funds going to other states.

Of course, being the polite professional that I am, I would not fail to include Sincerely before my signature.

[SouthernDem4ever]

13. Find me a courageous board of directors that thinks this way

and I have some swampland in Yuma to sell.

[moniss]

14. Yes I know but

as I said it would be my response. I probably wouldn't be welcome in the corporate world.

[SpankMe]

15. It's high time that these companies abandon red states

It will reach a point where the differences in law between Republican-led vs. Democratic-led states will be so stark that a company won't be able to operate in both places at the same time. We'll be a bifurcated society. We'll have to change the country's name from United States of America to just States of America. Or, more accurately, Federated States of America.

FSA! FSA!

[sakabatou]

16. Repukes sure do miss the miss the days of Jim Crow