January 20, 2023
The US Division of Justice introduced it reached a settlement with Minnesota-based Corp IV Holdings Inc., doing enterprise as Masterson Staffing Options. The settlement resolves claims that Masterson Staffing routinely discriminated towards its non-US citizen staff when checking their permission to work within the US, violating the Immigration and Nationality Act, in response to the division.
Below the phrases of the settlement settlement, Masterson Staffing pays $250,000 in civil penalties to the US and make $100,000 accessible for a back-pay fund for victims of the alleged discriminatory practices, in response to the division. The corporate may also practice workers on the Immigration and Nationality Act’s anti-discrimination provision, modify its insurance policies and be topic to quarterly reporting necessities.
The INA’s anti-discrimination provision prohibits employers from asking for particular paperwork due to a employee’s citizenship, immigration standing or nationwide origin.
The division reported its investigation discovered that Masterson Staffing routinely required particular paperwork from newly employed non-US residents regardless of federal legislation permitting staff to decide on amongst legally acceptable paperwork, no matter citizenship, immigration standing or nationwide origin. The investigation decided that Masterson Staffing required lawful everlasting residents to indicate their everlasting resident playing cards and different non-US residents to indicate their employment authorization paperwork.
Moreover, the division concluded that Masterson Staffing routinely required sure lawful everlasting residents to indicate pointless paperwork to show their continued permission to work.
“When staff current legally acceptable documentation to exhibit their permission to work, employers can’t demand totally different or extra paperwork due to the workers’ citizenship or immigration standing,” mentioned Assistant Lawyer Common Kristen Clarke of the Justice Division’s Civil Rights Division.