Southwest Airlines Agrees to Abandon Illegal DEI Practices Following Federal Civil Rights Complaint

As stated below, DEI hiring is illegal. Now it's time for all US companies to publicly state they're dissolving all DEI practices and will no longer use DEI metrics when hiring.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL) received a confirmation from the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) that Southwest Airlines Co. has acknowledged and agreed to abandon its unlawful discriminatory employment practices outlined in AFL’s federal civil rights complaint.

On January 17, 2024, AFL filed a complaint against Southwest with the OFCCP, requesting an immediate investigation into the airline for allegedly breaching the company’s contractual obligations under federal contracting law. Despite receiving over $330 million in federal government contracts since 2007, Southwest explicitly promoted illegal “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), violating its equal opportunity agreements.

On December 2, 2024, OFCCP held an informal compliance conference with Southwest Airlines Co. in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §60-1.24(c)(2). In other words, OFCCP’s investigation indicated a violation of the equal opportunity clause, and it sought to resolve the matter by holding a compliance conference with Southwest. Following the compliance conference with OFCCP, Southwest acknowledged and agreed to end its illegal race and sex-based discrimination in all hiring and promotional processes, including all unlawful DEI quotas, benchmarks, or preferences.

Statement from Will Scolinos, America First Legal Counsel:

“On your next flight, would you rather be told that your pilot checks the right DEI boxes or that he was hired because he was the best of all competing candidates? Americans have had enough of corporations’ overt discrimination under the guise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It is unacceptable that corporations are so openly using everyday Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars to meet their unlawful race and sex quotas to achieve some ‘correct’ amount of diversity and representation. Discrimination on the basis of immutable characteristics is always wrong. AFL will continue to fight against discrimination as a substitute for merit in employment decisions—it’s not going to fly,” said Will Scolinos.




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It seems Americans can't find a sensible balance like other countries. It's really disgusting.

 

This is great work by this Law Firm.

I'll take the Pilot that is most qualified, not the one that was hired to fill an illegal diversity quota.

 

University of Michigan Abandons Mandatory Diversity Statements

No more compelled speech

 

Even if their black, or are you just gonna assume they were hired because their black?

 

You know it's funny how you guys can ridicule our country like this but the minute that we say anything about your opinion and living in a foreign country, we tend to get in trouble.

 

DEI, quotas, minority priority, skin color, sensitivity training, Al Sharpton, radical lefty loons, etc., are slowly falling onto the nonsense pile. The pendulum is swinging back to the center.

 

of course it's illegal now as most tech companies are now hiring overseas, and corps don't want to be diverse and hire American employees too

 

Yep, decades of progress could be unraveled.

 

Like the UK?

https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/1857011049796395280

America isn't the only country suffering from an infestation of the far left fascism.

 

No! That's not balanced.

 

Racial discrimination is illegal. There is no "sensible balance" on racism. You simply don't do it.

 

Dei is not just about race.

 

Maybe you don't believe in merit. Most underachievers don't. But merit produces the best work force, the best athlete, the best military, and on and on.

 

You guys don't.

 

You're right, racism and sexism are both wrong. We shouldn't support either. Thanks for the correction.

 

Your country sticks it's nose into the affairs of others more than any other country I can think of.

 

That is a legitimate fear, if the pendulum swings too far the other way. I have been calling out illiberal left policy for a while now, much for that exact concern. The regressive "progressives" didn't see the harm they were doing my by pushing that pendulum with more and more force, when it was always inevitably going to swing back with the same momentum.

 

In Australia quotas provide opportunities for disabled people to have gainful employment.

 

Accommodation for the disabled makes sense. Discrimination in hiring, far less so. Though I suppose it makes a lot more sense than discrimination based on race, gender, etc.