How the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling could impact corporate recruiting
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Some hiring practices companies have emphasized in recent years to diversify their workforce could have to change following the Supreme Court's ruling last week striking down affirmative action.
Although corporations are already legally prohibited from making hiring and firing decisions based solely on race, the justices' landmark ruling — which bans race-conscious admissions decisions at higher education institutions — could lead employers to revamp their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and hiring practices, experts said.
"A lot of companies expanded their diversity programs in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and in some cases they may have gone a bit too far — they may have crossed a legal line," New York Times workplace reporter Noam Scheiber told CBS News. "And there's a sense that there could be additional legal scrutiny of that, more cases brought by employees who are passed over for a job or a promotion."
On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single moment captured by an Army photographer became the most enduring image of America's greatest military operation.
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