Labor Department Rescinds 1965 Contractor Bias Rules Under Trump Order 14173

1 articles · Updated · OnLabor · Aug 7

August 21 brought a final Labor Department rule scrapping regulations that required federal contractors to maintain affirmative action plans and let the agency enforce those obligations.
Executive Order 14173 drove the rollback after President Trump revoked Executive Order 11246, the 1965 Johnson-era directive that underpinned the contractor rules.
The rescission effectively ends the department’s long-standing role in policing bias by federal contractors through that affirmative-action framework.
The move marks a broad federal policy reversal from a system in place for more than 60 years to one aligned with Trump’s first-day order.