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Impact of federal DEI program rollbacks on NYC workforce
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Council Member Farah N. Louis inquires about the potential impact of President Trump's executive order 14,151, which eliminates DEI programs in federal agencies, on recruitment efforts and exam outcomes within the NYC workforce.
- Silvia Montalban from DCAS emphasizes that the federal ban should not affect NYC's practices
- NYC continues to focus on broad outreach, fair employment practices, and protections against discrimination
- Kadian Outar from DCAS confirms that recruitment efforts remain unchanged, with agencies still showing high levels of recruitment for diverse communities
- City agencies continue to improve DEI within the workforce, operating as normal despite federal changes
Farah N. Louis
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This is my last question for Decas.
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President Trump issued executive order 14,151 ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing which directs the elimination of DEI personnel practices and celebrations across federal agencies.
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This has resulted in sweeping rollbacks of protections and programs meant to advance equity in the public workforce.
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Has the federal ban on DEI policies and related personnel created any measurable impact on recruitment efforts or exam outcomes within the city workforce?
Silvia Montalban
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So I you know I do want to emphasize before we pass it to human capital that as I mentioned before, it should not.
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We have made clear to all of the personnel officials and the EO officials to reinforce to their agencies and reassure them that our practice is to do broad outreach, to enrich our applicant pools, make people aware of our opportunities because we do have an obligation to engage in fair effective employment practices.
0:56:46
Nothing changes as I said and the protections against discrimination and harassment in the city under the protected categories that exist in our jurisdiction still exist.
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We still have practices where we apply fair reviews of the same qualification standards required for everybody and it's grounded in competencies that meet our business needs.
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So we don't expect that anything should be changing.
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Where if at all there are agencies that may be working with programs that may have federal funding, they have been advised to consult with the law department.
0:57:20
But I'll turn it over to Human Capital if you have anything else.
Kadian Outar
0:57:23
Just sticking to what Sylvia said, recruitment is still the same.
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Agencies are still showing a high level of recruitment for diverse communities and they're still doing their outreach and still engaging with us even more so in the same way.
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So that hasn't really changed, and with, you know, city agencies being going out there and even our team going out there, we're able to respond to questions from candidates about what, you know, changes and to confirm that we're still operating on our normal sense of it you know improving DEI within the workforce.
Farah N. Louis
0:57:53
Thank you.
0:57:54
I'm gonna hand it back to Chair Dela Rosa.