A US agency sued a Coca-Cola bottling company for discrimination over a networking event it held for female employees at a casino resort, as the Trump administration cracks down on corporate diversity initiatives.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the company had violated civil rights laws by not inviting male employees to the 2024 getaway in Connecticut, which it said included “a social reception, team-building exercises and recreational activities”.
The case is a sign of the change in focus at the agency, which was set up at the height of the US civil rights movement during the 1960s to stop discrimination. In December its chair Andrea Lucas posted a video on social media in which she encouraged white men to file claims if they believed they had suffered sex or race discrimination.