The inquiry from the DOL's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs "has focused on whether Microsoft's commitment to double the number of Black and African American people managers, senior individual contributors and senior leaders in our U.S. workforce by 2025 could constitute unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, which would violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act," Dev Stahlkopf, the company's corporate vice president and general counsel, said in a statement Tuesday. Stahlkopf added that they have "every confidence that Microsoft's diversity initiative complies fully with all U.S. employment laws" and they look forward to defending them to the OFCCP. In late June, as protests over the police killing of George Floyd roiled the nation and thrust longstanding issues of systemic racism into the mainstream spotlight, Microsoft pledged to invest an additional $150 million over five years into its diversity and inclusion programs.