The Trump administration has created a merit-based hiring plan, ending the use of race, sex, and religion data for diversity, equity, and inclusion purposes in hiring for federal jobs.
The Office of Personnel Management released a “Merit Hiring Plan” that was sent Thursday to heads and acting heads of departments and agencies, directing them to not use race, sex, ethnicity, national origin statistics or “the broader concept of ‘underrepresentation’” to hire or recruit.
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