Labor Dept Ends Job Discrimination Investigations

Via press release from the Labor Department:

Acting Secretary of Labor Vince Micone today transmitted Secretary’s Order 03-2025 to all department employees, directing them to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under the rescinded Executive Order 11246 and the regulations promulgated under it.

The order applies to all department employees, including the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, the Office of Administrative Law Judges and the Administrative Review Board. The department no longer has any authority under the rescinded Executive Order 11246 or its regulations.

More about this move:

The directive applies universally to employees across the department, including the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the Office of Administrative Law Judges, and the Administrative Review Board.

Executive Order 11246, originally signed in 1965, mandated nondiscrimination and affirmative action obligations for federal contractors.

It has been a cornerstone of promoting equal employment opportunities by ensuring contractors adhere to diversity and anti-discrimination standards in their hiring practices. The rescission of this executive order marks a significant shift in federal labor policy.

The Washington Blade reports:

On his first day in office President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 named Vince Micone [photo above], who’s gay, as Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor.

Micone, who has worked in high-level positions in federal government agencies for at least 30 years, has served on the board of directors of D.C.’s Capital Pride Alliance, which organizes most of D.C.’s LGBTQ Pride events, for 15 years.

But Micone resigned from the board this week, just months before the city’s WorldPride celebration that is expected to draw 2+ million visitors to D.C. in May and June.

Obviously this includes claims of anti-LGBTQ discrimination. Congrats, homocon Acting Secretary.