Plans obtained by The Post show the office will maintain 50 employees to enforce discrimination law for veterans and workers with disabilities, but it will no longer be staffed to audit companies for pay and hiring disparities for women and minority workers. Much of that work had been halted since Trump last month overturned an antidiscrimination order signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, which established the office's primary mission 60 years ago.
The erosion of private sector guardrails is likely to deter people from reporting mistreatment, said Jenny Yang, who served as director of the agency during the Biden administration and presided over investigations of multiple large firms over gender pay disparities and hiring discrimination...
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