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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have written to the United States ’ Acting Secretary of Labor , Julie Su , expressing concerns over the disproportionate shock tech layoffs could have on smuggled workers , according to a letter seen by TechCrunch .
First report byThe Grio , the missive contain a list of questions regarding the steps the Department of Labor has taken to monitor the impingement of technical school layoffs on African Americans , its regulations around business practices and what the Department of Labor has done to ensure late Supreme Court cases are not being used to counteract corporate DEI exercise and budgets .
More than 240,000 occupation have been eliminate this yeardue to layoff in the tech manufacture . The headache here is that the “ last in , first out ” approach to technical school layoffs commonly employed at company may affect new , less aged and “ non - essential ” employees , who are most likely to be minorities .
“ Laying off the most recent hires directly affect groups of people who benefited from new variety policies implemented in response to heightened race - base conversation in 2020 , ” the varsity letter say .
“ We ’ve seen that Black , Brown , and women tech workers have borne the brunt of layoff while company have enjoyed billion - dollar profit , ” Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver , co - chair of the CBC , tell TechCrunch . “ Congresswoman [ Barbara ] Lee and I , as co - moderate ofCBC TECH2025 , are expect the governance to take activity to address this harmful and problematic trend . ”
The Department of Labor has not yet responded to the letter of the alphabet , which is dated December 15 . A rep for the Department of Labor told us , “ We can confirm that we have received the letter and are reviewing it . ”
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The CBC is stepping up . Last week , itwroteto Sam Altman and the OpenAI control panel , necessitate the company to “ move expeditiously in diversifying its board to be inclusive of open matter expertness with linear perspective from the African American community . ” The OpenAI Boardcurrently does not haveany cleaning lady or people of colour .
