To implement the president’s recent executive order banning certain kinds of diversity and inclusion training, the Office of Personnel Management will pause all such programs across the executive branch while it conducts a mandatory review of agency materials.
“OPM must review and approve training materials before they are used, even if those materials have been utilized in the past,” Dennis Kirk, the agency’s associate director of employee services, said Friday in a memo.
When Federal News Network first viewed the OPM memo mid-Friday afternoon, the original document also included the following sentence:
“All diversity and inclusion training for federal employees is on hold, and may not proceed, until those materials have been submitted to OPM and OPM has reviewed and approved those materials.”
