The Justice Department announced today that it has secured a settlement agreement with FM Talent Source LLC, a Maryland-based staffing services company. The settlement resolves the department’s determination that FM Talent violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) when the company rescinded a job offer from a non-U.S. citizen and delayed his eventual hiring due to unfounded suspicions based on his citizenship status.
“Employers cannot make hiring decisions based solely on assumptions or stereotypes about an applicant’s citizenship status,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Civil Rights Division will vigorously enforce the Immigration and Nationality Act’s nondiscrimination mandate to ensure that all job applicants are treated fairly.”
The department’s investigation began when a lawful permanent resident complained that FM Talent rescinded his job offer for a contract position with the federal government because of his citizenship status. The department found that, although the federal contract did not prohibit FM Talent from hiring a lawful permanent resident for the position, FM Talent rescinded the applicant’s offer due to unfounded suspicions that his status as a non-U.S. citizen, he would delay the hiring process. FM Talent renewed the worker’s job offer after the department opened its investigation, but the company’s discriminatory actions delayed the worker’s start date. Under the INA,...
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