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Monday, May 22, 2023



Justice Department Secures Settlement with New Jersey IT Recruiting Firm to Resolve Immigration-Related Discrimination Claims



The Justice Department announced today that it has secured a settlement agreement with Infosoft Solutions Inc., a New Jersey IT recruiting and contracting company operating as KForce Tech LLC.

The settlement resolves the department’s determination that Infosoft violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by posting six discriminatory job advertisements that solicited applications only from non-U.S. citizens who needed visa sponsorship and, in one case, also sought applicants only from India.

“When employers advertise jobs only to applicants from a certain country or who need temporary visas, they discourage all other eligible workers and deny them a fair chance to be considered,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Civil Rights Division will not tolerate national origin or citizenship status discrimination and is committed to knocking down these unlawful discriminatory barriers.”

The department’s investigation determined that between July 2021 and August 2021, Infosoft posted at least six job advertisements inviting applications only from applicants who wanted sponsorship to work in the United States or who already had an employment-based temporary visa.

One of the six advertisements also required the candidates to be from India.

In doing so, the company deterred workers with permission to work in the United States without sponsorship (such as asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents, U.S. nationals and U.S. citizens) from applying to the job advertisements and being fairly considered for the employment opportunities.

The INA’s anti-discrimination provision generally prohibits employers from recruiting or refusing to hire workers based on their citizenship status or national origin.

Under the settlement, Infosoft will pay $25,500 in civil penalties to the United States.

The agreement also requires the company to train its recruiters on the INA’s requirements, revise its employment policies and be subject to departmental monitoring and reporting requirements.

The Civil Rights Division’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) is responsible for enforcing the anti-discrimination provision of the INA. Among other things, the statute prohibits discrimination based on citizenship status and national origin in hiring, firing or recruitment or referral for a fee; unfair documentary practices; retaliation; and intimidation.

Learn more about IER’s work and how to get assistance through this brief video. Find more information on how employers can avoid citizenship status discrimination on IER’s website.

Applicants or employees who believe they were discriminated against based on their citizenship, immigration status or national origin in hiring, firing, recruitment or during the employment eligibility verification process (Form I-9 and E-Verify); or subjected to retaliation, may file a charge. The public can also call IER’s worker hotline at 1-800-255-7688 (1-800-237-2515, TTY for hearing impaired); call IER’s employer hotline at 1-800-255-8155 (1-800-237-2515, TTY for hearing impaired); email IER@usdoj.gov; sign up for a free webinar; or visit IER’s English and Spanish websites. Subscribe for email updates from IER. View the Spanish translation of this press release here.


https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...-immigration-0

Gee, wonder what his immigration "status" is and where he came from?


Massoud Assef

President at Infosoft Solutions, Inc.


https://www.dnb.com/contact-director...b8787d796.html

Under the settlement, Infosoft will pay $25,500 in civil penalties to the United States.

$25,500 doesn't sound very punitive to me. Over the years, they've probably saved more than that with their foreign workers.

Originally Posted by Scott-in-FL

$25,500 doesn't sound very punitive to me. Over the years, they've probably saved more than that with their foreign workers.

SLAP ON THE WRIST AND DROP IN THE BUCKET for what these foreign parasites have cost us.

No more immigration from anywhere!

Bring the Trades back to Grades 7 - 12. Teach our kids jobs.

Lauch a Relocate to Work Program with tax incentives to hire LEGAL American citizens.

COMPLETE FRAUD BY FOREIGNERS WHO RIP US OFF.

GO HOME, FIX YOUR OWN OVERBREEDING CESSPOOL.

Look at the FILTH in India in the streets. Sewage running in the streets. Same as San Francisco and Pelosi wretched district full of filth while she got rich off of insider trading.

I lived in a beautiful apartment in California in the 80s. Indian family move in. Two bathrooms! The kids came out the front door and urinated in the gutter downspout! I was mortified to see this in broad daylight! They are no different now, disgusting, unsanitary culture of raping mongrels and thieves. That is how they live. Lie, cheat and steal. THEY have to change their culture. Stop bringing them here!

That is why they come here, keep your pants zipped! Stop breeding and raping in the mud.

GROSS!