Trump Didn’t Ban All Unconscious-Bias Training: DOL Official

A U.S. Labor Department subagency leader emphasized that federal contractors can provide workers with unconscious-bias training without running afoul of a recent executive order that outlawed what the White House described as “divisive” methods of instruction.

Craig Leen, head of the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, said unconscious-bias training is “perfectly fine,” as long as it “teaches that everyone, based on the human condition, has unconscious biases,” and doesn’t specifically call out a particular race or sex as being inherently biased. Leen addressed the order Friday during an annual conference on labor topics hosted by New York ...