Federal employees fired over "DEI activities" file complaint

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Source: Axios

20 mins ago


A group of federal employees who were fired for participating in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) activities have filed a complaint to regain their jobs and their back pay.

Why it matters: The complaint filed Wednesday before the Merit System Protection Board directly challenges President Trump's anti-DEI purge across the federal government and could be the first step in a class action lawsuit.

Zoom in: The complaint alleges that the mass terminations and other attacks on federal employees who are alleged to have participated in DEI activities violated federal employees' rights under the First Amendment.

It also alleges that the Trump administration targeted employees whom it perceived as being associated with DEI, including those who no longer performed any DEI-related activities.

In addition, the complaint says such targeting demonstrates that the Trump administration sought to punish employees for what the administration perceived as their political views.

It challenges the gender and racial impacts of the anti-DEI executive orders, which disproportionately singled out federal workers who were not white men for hostility, suspicion, job interference and termination, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

What they're saying: "By illegally targeting employees across government, the Trump administration is actually hurting all the people who live and work in this country by denying them the important services we provide," plaintiff Mahri Stáinnak of the Office of Personnel Management said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/federal-employees-dei-complaint-trump-jobs

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Link to COMPLAINT (PDF) - https://www.acludc.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/mspb_class_complaint_stainnak_mahri_as_filed.pdf

[rickyhall]

1. You mean racism? Surely not.

[NotHardly]

3. ... and misogyny. Don't forget the women.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

2. Racism is the right's Achilles heel.

If they could suppress it just well enough to make everything about greed, we would probably be doomed. But not only is not everything money with them, that's just a smoke screen. Racism is their main motivation. The existence of non-whites makes them itch in a way they can't scratch except to commit petty and extreme acts of oppression with no logical reason.

They nearly destroyed this country in the 1860s over it, and tore apart an entire continent over it in the 1940s. They may yet do worse than that. I think we're starting to get the picture that these people are diseased in a way that cannot be cured.

[ReRe]

4. Would someone please explain what a "DEI Activity" is?

Might that be living, breathing, & working for a living while of another color, while female, what?

This country has jumped off the deep end.

Legalized racism/sexism. Prejudiced to the core POSs. Bigots every single one of them.