{"id":1002665,"date":"2026-04-13T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002665"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:59:45","slug":"end-of-diversity-hiring-ibm-agrees-to-17-million-settlement-with-trump-admin-in-anti-dei-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/13\/end-of-diversity-hiring-ibm-agrees-to-17-million-settlement-with-trump-admin-in-anti-dei-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"End of diversity hiring? IBM agrees to $17 million settlement with Trump admin in anti-DEI probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has reached a settlement with the US federal government on Friday \u2014 agreeing to pay $17 million to resolve an anti-DEI investigation. The Donald Trump administration has come down heavily against diversity, equity and inclusion practices over the past year with executive orders escalating pressure on the private sector. <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice has accused the New York-based technology firm of \u201cknowingly\u201d making \u201cfalse claims\u201d about its hiring and employment practices in federal contracts. The settlement document also accused IBM of identifying \u201cdiverse\u201d candidates for hiring or promotions while developing race and sex demographic goals. IBM has denied the accusations and the settlement added that their agreement was not an admission of guilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has reached a settlement with the US federal government on Friday \u2014 agreeing to pay $17 million to resolve an anti-DEI investigation. The Donald Trump administration has come down heavily against diversity, equity and inclusion practices over the past year with executive orders escalating pressure on the private sector. The Department of Justice has accused the New York-based technology firm of \u201cknowingly\u201d making \u201cfalse claims\u201d about its hiring and employment practices in federal contracts. The settlement document also accused IBM of identifying \u201cdiverse\u201d candidates for hiring or promotions while developing race and sex demographic goals. IBM has denied the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}