DOJ Alleges Facebook Discriminated Against U.S. Workers
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) on Thursday, alleging that the company favored foreign workers with temporary immigration status over native-born U.S. applicants. The DOJs civil rights department charged that holders of H1-B visas got special consideration in hiring decisions and that Facebook used a process that intentionally deterred U.S. workers.
The complaint follows a two-year investigation into the company's hiring practices, which found that Facebook "refused to recruit, consider, or hire qualified and available U.S. workers" for a number of high-paying positions, more than 2,600 that had an average salary of $156,000. The suit says that these positions all went to holders of immigration visas.
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