US tells French companies to comply with Donald Trump's anti-diversity order

[In It to Win It]

FT (Archived)

The Trump administration has sent a letter to some large French companies warning them to comply with an executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programmes.

The letter, sent by the American embassy in Paris, stated that Trump’s executive order applied to companies outside the US if they were a supplier or service provider to the American government, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The embassy also sent a questionnaire that ordered the companies to attest to their compliance. The document, which the Financial Times has seen, is titled “certification regarding compliance with applicable federal anti-discrimination law”.

The document says “Department of State contractors must certify that they do not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable anti-discrimination laws and agree that such certification is material for purposes of the government’s payment decision and therefore subject to the False Claims Act.”

The documents appear to signal that the Trump administration is widening its campaign against DEI to foreign companies after launching a crackdown against US media groups such as Disney.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump thinks he is the boss of everyone.

The entire world must bow down to him.

I hope France tells Trump to go to hell.

[Scrivener7]

2. This man is a fucking loon.

[mwmisses4289]

3. Their response should be

sending a reply to it letting it know that any American company doing business with France (and the eu?) must include a dei program, and they have so many days to certify that they have such.

[Think. Again.]

4. ⬆⬆⬆THIS⬆⬆⬆

[newdeal2]

7. All the EU, UK, Africa, Brazil, South Africa

Should band together and demand US multinationals employ a DEI and ESG program. Otherwise GTFO of their countries.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Any US airline that so much as looks at an Airbus will

lose its FAA certification,

What will the coast Guard do with its Eurocopters? Ditto the many medical centers with medevac helicopters?

[malaise]

6. They:'re out of their effin minds

That is all

[David__77]

8. I sincerely hope Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe cooperate to nullify the US bluster.

[struggle4progress]

9. "Also France must send all Venezuelans with tattoos to our Salvadoran concentration camp!"

[struggle4progress]

10. Anti-Discrimination Legislation

France is the birthplace of human rights, and as such it has one of the most advanced anti-discrimination and anti-racism legislations. Constitutional acts in France acknowledge equality regarding the law, equality between men and women, equality regardless of race and nationality, equal rights for labour regardless of background, views and beliefs, equal rights to education, culture, learning a profession. These rights are based on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, to which the country’s modern Constitution is linked and which in its preamble states that "the French nation boldly proclaims its allegiance to human rights... as they were defined by the Declaration of 1789 and the Constitution of 1946”. Article 1 of the French constitution states that France “must provide for equality of all citizens before the law, regardless of origin, race or religions and respect all faiths”.

https://civic-nation.org/france/government/legislation/anti-discrimination_legislation/