Late Friday, Acting Secretary of Labor Vince Miccone signed Secretary’s Order No. 03-2025 stating that since the issuance of President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) rescinding EO 11246, “Equal Employment Opportunity” (September 24, 1965) “DOL no longer has any authority under the rescinded Executive Order” and all DOL employees are to “immediately cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under the rescinded Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity (September 24, 1965).”
This includes “all pending cases, conciliation agreements, investigations, complaints, and any other enforcement-related or investigative activity.” Moreover, DOL staff is directed to “[n]otify all regulated parties with impacted open reviews or investigations by January 31, 2025, that the EO 11246 component of the review or investigation has been closed and the Section 503 and Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act components of the review or investigation are being held in abeyance pending further guidance.”