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America First Legal (AFL) began warning corporations and government agencies about their so-called affirmative action policies before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Harvard University’s and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s racial preference admissions policies violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Though the ruling pertained to academic settings and not employment, corporations are under scrutiny. AFL is leading the way. The firm filed lawsuits asking the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to investigate companies like Starbucks and taxpayer-supported institutions like Texas A&M University.
In one of its latest filing, AFL sent a cease-and-desist letter (PDF) to accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers about racial discrimination in employment and contracting. An excerpt:
We write in response to strong evidence suggesting that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) is unlawfully discriminating based on race, color, national origin, religion, and sex in its hiring, promotion, training, and procurement decisions, and to demand that you immediately instruct the partnership to cease and desist from violating our civil rights laws.
AFL also asked the EEOC to open an investigation.
“Workplace discrimination and contracting based on race, color, national origin, religion, and sex are always immoral and illegal,” said Reed Rubinstein, Senior Counselor and Director of Oversight and Investigations. “But PwC has failed to catch this basic and self-evident truth, leading one naturally to wonder — what else have the accountants missed?”
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