Executive Order Targets Contractor Diversity Training

Arnold & Porter – President Trump issued a controversial Executive Order on September 22, 2020 purporting to "promote unity in the Federal workforce" by addressing what the White House termed "offensive and anti-American" rhetoric in certain workforce trainings. Of relevance to government contractors, the Executive Order announces that, with certain limited exceptions, every future government contract entered into on or after November 21, 2020 will contain a clause forbidding the contractor from providing any workplace training that "inculcates in its employees" any of the concepts proscribed by the contract clause.