Civil rights complaint filed against Dodgers about Dei discrimination claims

EXCLUSIVE: A federal civil rights complaint has been filed before the US Employment Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) against the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Guggenheim investment firm is allegedly associated with “illegal discrimination” under the appearance of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI), in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Law of 1964.

The complaint was presented by America First legal (AFL), the organization of non -profit conservative public interest, against both entities, led by Mark Walter, the majority owner of the Dodgers and the CEO of Guggenheim Partners.

Walter recently became the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers also in a historic agreement of $ 10 billion with the Buss family.

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“Their employment practices, as described below, seem to discriminate to employees, or possible employees, only because of their color or sex of the skin. This is obviously illegal,” AFL complaint began, which was provided to Fox News Digital.

AFL complaint states that the work practices of Dodgers and Guggenheim Partners are discriminatory because, “even when inclusive terminology is used,” it is used “to segregate or classify employees or applicants for employment so that they are deprived, or tend to deprive people of employment, training or promotions due to their race, color, sex or national origin.”

The complaint continues to point out how the Dodgers’ website Read that it is “sponsoring programs oriented to women and people of color”, while “embeds the strategies of diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of the organization.”

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AFL was also disagreeing with the Dei mission statement at the Dodgers site.

The statement said: “Our mission is to create a culture where various voices and experiences are valued, our people feel empowered by their connections to each other and that the team and all employees feel that they can succeed.”

“Our position is to direct and track the impact, establish clear responsibilities, standards of reports, aspiration objectives and successful measurements,” said the AFL.

AFL argued that the team is using “quantifiable forms with identifiable objectives to achieve” success “, which seems to involve participating in the hiring, training and recruitment illegal discriminatory.”

The complaint mentioned the Dodgers that allowed employees to join multiple “commercial resources groups” (BG) within the organization, which provides employees “for a forum to bring together other employees who have common interests, identities and/or social problems.”

AFL complaint also made an exception to “some of the BRG seem to provide material employment benefits to employees based on their race, color, sex or national origin.” The complaint mentions Asian professionals, Black Action Network, we are, which “seems to provide Latin employees employment benefits” and the network of women’s opportunities.

In addition, the complaint requested an investigation into the Guggenheim partners, which also has a “diversity and inclusion” page that states that Dei plays a role in recruitment, professional development, hiring and more “throughout the company.”

“Guggenheim Partners makes it clear that defines’ diversity ‘to explicitly consider’ protected classes (), including, in part, those based on race, gender, ethnicity, age, age, religion, creed, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity,” says the complaint.

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The complaint points to Guggenheim Partners’ commitment to “expand the diversity of pipes”, which establishes its desire to “develop recruitment strategies for diversity and talents management to identify, attract, develop and retain maximum talent.”

“When diversity motivates employment decisions, and” diversity “refers to race, color, sex and national origin, as it does to Guggenheim couples, the result is an illegal discrimination,” says the complaint.

Guggenheim’s partners, such as Dodgers, also operate groups of business development resources (BDRGS).

“BDRG are open to all employees, but provide employment benefits based on particular immutable characteristics and intend to promote the company’s Dei objectives,” says the complaint, highlighting the “Network of Innovation and Inclusion of Women” and the “Multicultural Commercial Network of Employees” among them.

AFL suggests that the EEOC can investigate the application data and internal human resources policies or practices or practices of Guggenheim to “identify whether policies make explicit reference to labor preferences based on race, color, sex and national origin in the violation of the Federal Law.”

The Dodgers and Guggenheim Partners did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Fox News Digital.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump The signed executive orders aimed at delaying the initiatives ofi, with one of them, including the directives so that federal agencies fight Dei in the private sector. MLB took a step to meet, since they eliminated the “diversity” references of their website in March.

“Our values ​​about diversity remain unchanged,” MLB said in a statement at that time. “We are in the process of evaluating our programs for any modification to the eligibility criteria that are needed to ensure that our programs comply with federal law as they continue forward.”

He New York Yankees He remained committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within his organization despite Dei’s national reversions, saying in April that they are “working continuously with the members of our diversity and inclusion committee and are actively committed to our community neighbors and partners,” according to New York Daily News.

“Our dedication to these efforts remains unchanged, and our diversity and inclusion committee continues to do its job,” said Brian Smith, senior vice president of corporate and community relations.

In October 2023, the AFL filed a federal civil rights complaint against Rially discriminatory programs, together with the EEOC. The complaint said that the official MLB website presented at least four illegal employment and hiring programs, citing the diversity pipe program, which Commissioner Rob Manfred launched in 2016.

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General Services Administration (GSA) Changes announced in February To the federal acquisition regulations (FAR) destined to align with the president’s executive order destined to restore meritocracy and end discrimination in the public and private sectors.

After a meeting of owners in Palm Beach, Florida, in February, Manfred said MLB would evaluate the interpretation of the Federal Law.

“Our values, particularly our values ​​on diversity, remain unchanged. But another value that is quite important for us is that we always try to comply with what the law is,” Manfred explained. “It seems that there is an evolution here. We are following that very careful.

“Obviously, when things are established a little more, we will examine each of our programs and make sure that, although the values ​​remain the same as we are also consistent with what the law requires.”

Jasmine Baehr and Jackson Thompson of Fox News contributed to this report.

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