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South Florida Sun-Sentinel Quotes Lenny Samuels in, "State ‘anti-woke’ law rattles employer diversity programs: Are they on the way out?"
April 4, 2022
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"Come July 1, Florida employers who mandate diversity training programs to their workers would be well advised to take note of what those programs say — and how they say it.
The so-called “Stop Woke Act” passed by the Legislature this month and soon to be signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, restricts how programs aimed at promoting diversity in the workplace can be presented to employees. The idea is to protect workers as well as students in schools from language that might make them feel “uncomfortable” by references to past acts of bias and discrimination around the country."
