{"id":1035322,"date":"2026-09-15T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035322"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:32:05","slug":"accenture-to-pay-25-million-to-settle-us-government-allegations-over-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/15\/accenture-to-pay-25-million-to-settle-us-government-allegations-over-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture to pay $25 million to settle US government allegations over DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: IT consulting firm Accenture will pay $25 million \u200bto settle U.S. government \u200ballegations over diversity practices, which President Donald Trump&#8217;s \u200badministration has targeted in his second term in office. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accenture shall pay to the United States $25,000,000, inclusive of civil penalties and interest on the Settlement Amount at \u200ca rate of \u20604% \u2060per annum from September 9, 2026,&#8221; the settlement agreement made public on Monday \u200bsaid. It was signed by the U.S. Department of Justice and Accenture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: IT consulting firm Accenture will pay $25 million \u200bto settle U.S. government \u200ballegations over diversity practices, which President Donald Trump&#8217;s \u200badministration has targeted in his second term in office. &#8220;Accenture shall pay to the United States $25,000,000, inclusive of civil penalties and interest on the Settlement Amount at \u200ca rate of \u20604% \u2060per annum from September 9, 2026,&#8221; the settlement agreement made public on Monday \u200bsaid. It was signed by the U.S. Department of Justice and Accenture.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035322","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=1035322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035353,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035322\/revisions\/1035353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}