Corporate diversity challenges may follow affirmative action ruling
Plus, the SCOTUS term in review View in Browser Sign up for Reuters newsletters June 30, 2023 Here's a quick look at today's top legal news. Afternoon Docket writer Caitlin Tremblay is on a Reuters assignment and will return to the newsletter soon. Affirmative action ruling could place target on US corporate diversity programs REUTERS/Jim Bourg The U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious policies in college admissions includes some warnings to companies about the legal limits of workforce diversity efforts and is likely to fuel challenges to them, experts said. The ruling has no direct impact on employers because it does not involve workplace bias laws. But in finding that Harvard University and the UNC unlawfully considered race as a factor in the admissions process, the court may have laid the groundwork for future challenges to corporate...
