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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a national bureau that enforces laws against workplace discrimination, said Wednesday that it is investigating Nike implicit allegations that the diversion apparel shaper discriminated against White workers.
The EEOC's ineligible enactment alleges Nike whitethorn person engaged successful "a signifier oregon signifier of disparate attraction against White employees, applicants and grooming programme participants" with the company's hiring, promotion and layoff decisions, arsenic good arsenic its workforce improvement programs.
Nike did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
The EEOC, which filed the subpoena enforcement enactment successful national tribunal successful Missouri, said it is looking into allegations of favoritism tied to Nike's diversity, equity and inclusion, oregon DEI, objectives for 2025. The bureau said successful a statement Wednesday that it filed the ineligible enactment aft the institution failed to supply accusation it had subpoenaed.
The bureau said it has asked Nike for accusation dating backmost to 2018, including the criteria it utilized to prime employees for layoffs and accusation connected however the institution tracks workers' contention and ethnicity data.
The EEOC was created nether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination.
"Thanks to President Trump's committedness to enforcing our nation's civilian rights laws, the EEOC has renewed its absorption connected evenhanded enforcement of Title VII," said Andrea Lucas, whom President Trump nominated arsenic seat successful November 2025.
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