Employers using online recruiting platforms risk running afoul of immigration law, as the Justice Department has taken a new focus on hiring discrimination against non-citizens.
As of last week, 20 companies have settled with the DOJ’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section over the alleged bias, including such big names as Walmart Inc., CarMax Inc., Capital One Financial Corp., and KPMG LLP.
The companies all posted advertisements on a Georgia Institute of Technology job recruiting platform that the agency found discriminated against non-citizen applicants by illegally indicating that US citizenship was a requirement for the position.
Employers can’t discriminate based on citizenship or immigration status unless required by a law, regulation, executive order, or government contract.
The companies, which denied wrongdoing, agreed to pay a total of more than $1.1 million in civil penalties.
Yet more enforcement actions could be in the offing as the government investigates other employers’ use of the platform.
The DOJ’s investigation should put companies on notice about the potential pitfalls of recruiting technology, immigration attorneys say.
It also shows a willingness on the part of the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, which investigates discrimination under the Immigration and Nationality Act, to take on “more complex, more involved cases to identify patterns that...
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