The enforcement action is one of the most prominent early tests of the Trump administration\u2019s promise to scrutinize corporate DEI initiatives and to prioritize cases in which White workers allege discrimination. In December, the EEOC took the unusual step of publicly encouraging White men who believed they had faced discrimination at work to come forward with complaints.<\/p>\n
\u201cTitle VII\u2019s prohibition of race\u2011based employment discrimination is colorblind and requires the EEOC to protect employees of all races from unlawful employment practices,\u201d EEOC chair Andrea Lucas said in a statement announcing the Nike action. She added that, under President Donald Trump, the commission had \u201crenewed its focus on evenhanded enforcement of Title VII.\u201d<\/p>\n
What the EEOC is seeking from Nike<\/p>\n
The EEOC says it began investigating after receiving allegations that Nike\u2019s diversity goals and related initiatives may have unfairly disadvantaged White workers. As part of that probe, the agency issued a subpoena seeking information going back to 2018, including:<\/p>\n
\n\tThe criteria Nike used to select employees for layoffs.
\n\tDetails on how the company tracks and uses employees\u2019 race and ethnicity data, including whether such data factors into executive compensation.
\n\tInformation about 16 internal programs that allegedly offered race\u2011restricted mentoring, leadership or other career\u2011development opportunities.
<\/p>\n
After Nike did not voluntarily provide all of the requested information, the EEOC filed its subpoena enforcement action in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. The case is titled EEOC v. NIKE, Inc., Case No. 4:26\u2011mc\u201100128.<\/p>\n
The company has not yet publicly commented on the enforcement action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The enforcement action is one of the most prominent early tests of the Trump administration\u2019s promise to scrutinize…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11957,111,43,139,23279,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-267869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-dei","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nike","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}