US EditionJustice Department Ends 44-Year Consent Decree on Civil Service Exams
- The Department of Justice has repealed a 44-year-old hiring decree that was based on diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, restoring merit-based hiring practices.
- The consent decree, established in 1981, originally aimed to prevent racial discrimination in federal hiring but is now viewed as limiting access to top talent.
- U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro emphasized that hiring should be based on competence and merit, stating, 'It’s about time people are judged, not by their identity, but instead by the content of their character.'
- Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon stated that the removal of the decree will allow for hiring based on merit rather than race.
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Court Terminates 43-Year-Old Consent Decree That Barred Federal Civil Service Exams Over Race — Merit is Back - Black Community News
The federal government began administering a civil service exam to applicants in 1974 to hire individuals based on merit alone. The exam, called the Professional and Administrative Career Examination (PACE), measured cognitive and other skills in applicants. A group of black and Hispanic Americans filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel …
DOJ scraps decree meant to boost diversity in federal workforce
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it has ended a decades-old race-based decree affecting federal hiring practices as it continues implementation of some of the earliest executive orders of President Donald Trump’s second term.
DOJ Ends Decades-Old Hiring Decree
The Department of Justice announced that it has repealed a 44-year-old hiring decree rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideas. The policy reversal, brought about through the department’s Civil Rights Division, restores merit-based hiring practices. The decree, dating to 1981, imposed “draconian test review and implementation procedures on the Office of Personnel Management,” the DOJ explained, a move that affected other federal age…
DOJ scraps race-based hiring decree that was meant to boost diversity in federal workforce
Newly appointed U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro echoed Dhillon’s words on the revocation of the decree. “It’s simple, competence and merit are the standards by which we should all be judged; nothing more and nothing less,” Pirro said.
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