Labor Department Emerges as New Venue for Corporate DEI Attacks

A conservative legal group’s attack on Sanofi’s diversity policies through the US Labor Department’s federal contractor watchdog will prove a difficult avenue to successfully show bias in these programs.

Ex-Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s group America First Legal sent letters Jan. 2 to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the pharmaceutical company and a subsidiary’s hiring goals are discriminatory, and asking the agencies to investigate. AFL also submitted a formal complaint under its own name to OFCCP containing the claim.

Though AFL has publicly gone after numerous diversity and inclusion programs, the ...