The Justice Department announced today that it has secured a settlement agreement with Mountain Prairie Holdings, a Colorado-based staffing agency that formerly operated as Apprentice Personnel. The settlement resolves the department’s determination that Mountain Prairie violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against non-U.S. citizen workers when checking their permission to work in the United States.
“Demanding that workers provide more documentation than required by law to prove their permission to work causes unnecessary stress, financial hardship and obstacles to employment, especially for vulnerable workers,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Justice Department will continue to hold employers accountable for such discriminatory actions.”
The department’s investigation began after a newly hired non-U.S. citizen complained that staff in Apprentice Personnel’s Colorado Springs office demanded that he produce a foreign passport to prove his permission to work, even though he had already presented sufficient documentation. The department also determined that the Colorado Springs office routinely required certain non-U.S. citizens to show their immigration documents, even when these workers had already presented other valid documentation. Ultimately, the department found that several non-U.S. citizens, including the complaining party, had been victims of this practice.
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