Federal appeals court blocks Florida's 'Stop WOKE Act' rules for businesses
Source: The Hill
03/04/24 6:30 PM
A federal appeals court ruled unanimously Monday to block a Florida law preventing businesses from requiring employees to attend workplace trainings that promote diversity and inclusion, affirming a temporary injunction issued by a lower court.
This is not the first era in which Americans have held widely divergent views on important areas of morality, ethics, law, and public policy, a three-judge panel for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in Mondays decision. And it is not the first time that these disagreements have seemed so important, and their airing so dangerous, that something had to be done. But now, as before, the First Amendment keeps the government from putting its thumb on the scale.
Florida officials, since introducing the Stop WOKE Act in which woke is an acronym for Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees have argued that the legislation is intended to combat alleged indoctrination in schools and workplaces.
The law prevents Florida educators and businesses from requiring individuals to participate in activities that promote discriminatory concepts constituting unlawful discrimination, including that members of one race or sex are morally superior to those of another and that a person, by virtue of their race, sex or national origin, should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment to achieve diversity, equity or inclusion.
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Attilatheblond
(2,235 posts)Diversity & inclusion programs are how a business can protect themselves, and employees, from people within an organization who are openly abusive bigots. FL legislature is full of idiots who can't see past the ends of their noses.
Lunabell
(6,128 posts)And quit making all these unconstitutional laws?
Biophilic
(3,714 posts)Luckily for us they still arent too good at it.