Verizon Communications said on Friday that it ends diversity, fairness and integration programs after the Trump administration opened the investigation, and since the American telecommunications company seeks to agree to buy border communications.
The head of the Federal Communications Committee, Brendan Car, in February, criticized his promotion for Dei programs and said he might be a worker in the border deal.
Verizon said in a letter to Car, which was seen in Reuters that the company was removing its “diversity and inclusion” website, removing signals to Dei from employee training, making other changes in employment, job development, diversity of suppliers, and corporate care practices.
The company will not retain any targets of the diversity of the workforce and will drop an component of the management compensation plan, which historically included a goal to increase the representation of women and minorities in the American workforce.
“Verizon realizes that some DEI policies and practices can be associated with discrimination,” Vennaka Venkatish, Verizon's chief official in the message that the change was effective.
In February, Car, a Republican by President Trump, told NBC News Parent Comcast in February that he opened a similar investigation into the company's promotion of Dei programs.
Car said in a statement that he was happy that Verizon ended the DEI policies shown in the letter. “This is a good and important step forward – a step that enhances equal opportunities, non -discrimination, and the public interest,” Car said.
Verizon is approaching the approval of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) to purchase $ 9.6 billion.
In January, Trump issued comprehensive executive orders to dismantle diversity, stock and integration programs in the United States and pressure on the private sector to join the initiative.
