Southwest Airlines dropped its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements on Monday, according to a constitutional rights legal firm that sued the airline company over what it alleged to be “unlawful discriminatory employment practices.”
America First Legal (AFL) issued a statement on Tuesday in which it shared a letter from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) confirming the airline company “acknowledged and agreed to end its illegal race and sex-based discrimination in all hiring and promotional processes, including all unlawful DEI quotas, benchmarks, or preferences.”
The OFCCP said in the letter that it held an “informal compliance conference” with Southwest Airlines to address the allegations AFL made in a complaint filed in January….
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