US warns French companies they must comply with Trump's diversity ban
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The Trump administration has ordered French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with Executive Order 14173, which bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Companies received letters from the U.S. embassy in Paris with a compliance questionnaire to be completed within five days.
French Finance Minister Eric Lombard plans to address this with U.S. counterparts, stating "This practice reflects the values of the new U.S. government. They are not the same as ours."
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Summary
The Trump administration has ordered French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with Executive Order 14173, which bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Companies received letters from the U.S. embassy in Paris with a compliance questionnaire to be completed within five days.
French Finance Minister Eric Lombard plans to address this with U.S. counterparts, stating "This practice reflects the values of the new U.S. government. They are not the same as ours."
Most likely another "look over here" move.
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Most likely another "look over here" move.
Most media stories are exactly this, and nothing more.
France and the US have laws. The French company has a contract. They either comply with this new instruction, or don't, depending on what laws they are subject to, and they either get paid or don't depending on what the contract says. The French finance ministers say, well, nothing really, and loads of people looking at feddit.uk get anxious about it.
What fun!
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Summary
The Trump administration has ordered French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with Executive Order 14173, which bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Companies received letters from the U.S. embassy in Paris with a compliance questionnaire to be completed within five days.
French Finance Minister Eric Lombard plans to address this with U.S. counterparts, stating "This practice reflects the values of the new U.S. government. They are not the same as ours."
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Most likely another "look over here" move.
Watch my left hand while I fuck you with my right fist
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Summary
The Trump administration has ordered French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with Executive Order 14173, which bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Companies received letters from the U.S. embassy in Paris with a compliance questionnaire to be completed within five days.
French Finance Minister Eric Lombard plans to address this with U.S. counterparts, stating "This practice reflects the values of the new U.S. government. They are not the same as ours."
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Most media stories are exactly this, and nothing more.
France and the US have laws. The French company has a contract. They either comply with this new instruction, or don't, depending on what laws they are subject to, and they either get paid or don't depending on what the contract says. The French finance ministers say, well, nothing really, and loads of people looking at feddit.uk get anxious about it.
What fun!
You think that things like ‘laws’ and ‘contracts’ mean anything here in the US anymore? How cute.
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Most likely another "look over here" move.
It seems indeed, especially since they contacted companies with no presence in USA, and did not for other that have business there. Either random mediatic noise, either pure incompetence, either both.
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You think that things like ‘laws’ and ‘contracts’ mean anything here in the US anymore? How cute.
They have meaning in France. The US doesn't have any say over that. If the US breaks those contracts then they can be sued in France and French judges can award them penalties.
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Summary
The Trump administration has ordered French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with Executive Order 14173, which bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Companies received letters from the U.S. embassy in Paris with a compliance questionnaire to be completed within five days.
French Finance Minister Eric Lombard plans to address this with U.S. counterparts, stating "This practice reflects the values of the new U.S. government. They are not the same as ours."
Welp, there go all our business deals with France.
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Summary
The Trump administration has ordered French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with Executive Order 14173, which bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Companies received letters from the U.S. embassy in Paris with a compliance questionnaire to be completed within five days.
French Finance Minister Eric Lombard plans to address this with U.S. counterparts, stating "This practice reflects the values of the new U.S. government. They are not the same as ours."
Where are people organizing? I’m older now and not as plugged in as I used to be.
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They have meaning in France. The US doesn't have any say over that. If the US breaks those contracts then they can be sued in France and French judges can award them penalties.
Yeah, awarding penalties doesn't mean anything if you can't enforce it.
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Where are people organizing? I’m older now and not as plugged in as I used to be.
They aren't really. At least not in any great numbers.
And that's part of the problem.
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Yeah, awarding penalties doesn't mean anything if you can't enforce it.
The French actually enforce their laws. The US has assets in France that can be seized to cover fines if need be.
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Where are people organizing? I’m older now and not as plugged in as I used to be.
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I hope you are right. This timeline usually shows the companies caving, keeping a bit of a difference from directive, selling it as a we won't change to their people and actually giving ground to the bullies so they can claim they won as well on conservative media. The polarization of the population makes it so their media won't overlap enough to cause real conflict, just enough to say the other "side" of the conflict is nuts ignore them.
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Summary
The Trump administration has ordered French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with Executive Order 14173, which bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Companies received letters from the U.S. embassy in Paris with a compliance questionnaire to be completed within five days.
French Finance Minister Eric Lombard plans to address this with U.S. counterparts, stating "This practice reflects the values of the new U.S. government. They are not the same as ours."
They told him to fuck off, right?
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The French actually enforce their laws. The US has assets in France that can be seized to cover fines if need be.
I hope that’s true and I hope it happens. I’m concerned because I see examples like the administration successfully exerting pressure on other states to relax their law enforcement in cases like Romania’s prosecution of the Tate brothers.
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They told him to fuck off, right?
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Most likely another "look over here" move.
Not everything is a distraction and your country needs to stop dismissing everything as one
