On 28 March, several large EU companies received a letter from the US government asking them to abandon their diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) programmes, or risk losing their contracts with the federal government. This has provoked numerous reactions, particularly from the French and Belgian governments, who immediately denounced this interference and reaffirmed their commitment to diversity policies.
On 28 March, the Trump administration sent a letter to several major EU companies (French, Italian, Belgian and Spanish) asking them to “certify in writing” that they do not apply any diversity, equality and inclusion measures. Otherwise, it threatens to terminate their contracts with the US government. The French business newspaper Les Échos, which was the first to report the development, states that it was distributed by the American embassies in various countries. In this letter, the...
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Nathalie Tran
Editor-in-Chief Mind HR