Deloitte is the latest company to pay millions to avoid being targeted over DEI

For the last year, the Justice Department has been quietly probing high-profile companies over their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. Deloitte settled one such investigation earlier this week, agreeing to pay $21.5 million to address allegations that the company had violated federal law by taking race and gender into consideration when deciding who to hire and promote.  The government alleged that Deloitte had used “discriminatory race and sex-based employment practices” since 2017,…