New York: A New Jersey IT firm has been fined $25,500 for posting a discriminatory job advertisement. Infosoft Solutions Inc., an IT recruiting and contracting company operating as Kforce Tech LLC, violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by posting six discriminatory job advertisements between July 2021 and August 2021.
When employers advertise jobs only for applicants from a certain country or those who require a temporary visa, they discourage all other eligible workers, said Kristen Clark, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and deny them a fair opportunity. The department’s investigation determined that Infosoft’s advertisements solicited applications only from non-US citizens who required visa sponsorship, or who already had employment-based temporary visas . Candidates were also required to be from India in one of the six advertisements.
In doing so, the company barred the refugee, lawful permanent resident, US citizen from being permitted to work without sponsorship. In addition to paying the settlement, Infosoft will now be required to train its recruiters on the INA’s requirements, revise its employment policies and be subject to departmental monitoring and reporting requirements, Clark said. will not tolerate status discrimination, and is committed to eliminating these illegal discriminatory barriers.
The Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) of the Civil Rights Division is responsible for enforcing the anti-discrimination provision of the INA. Among other things, the law prohibits discrimination in hiring or referral for fees based on citizenship status and national origin. Prohibits. The INA’s anti-discrimination provision generally prohibits employers from hiring or refusing to hire workers based on their citizenship status or national origin.
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