Trump revokes the 1965 LBJ-enacted workplace discrimination rules.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced he had canceled a six-decade-old executive order aimed to prevent workplace discrimination and encourage.

Affirmative action among government contractors, overturning a labor regulation that extends back to the administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

The regulation Trump nuked, Executive Order 11246, banned government contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color,

Religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. It allowed the Labor Department the ability to enforce its terms via a contracting standards office.

The ruling was part of a long tradition of the federal government utilizing procurement restrictions to attempt to root out prejudice. Signed a year after the Civil Rights Act was approved,

It clearly demanded that firms that receive government contract money take “affirmative action” not to discriminate against job seekers or workers. In a statement Wednesday,

 

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