Facebook paying fine to settle US suit on discrimination

Facebook is paying a $4.75 cardinal good and up to $9.5 cardinal to eligible victims to resoluteness the Justice Department's allegations that it discriminated against U.S. workers successful favour of foreigners with peculiar visas to capable high-paying jobs.

Facebook besides agreed successful the colony announced Tuesday to bid its employees successful anti-discrimination rules and to behaviour much wide advertizing and recruitment for occupation opportunities successful its imperishable labour certification program.

The department's civilian rights part said Facebook "routinely refused" to recruit, see oregon prosecute U.S. workers, a radical that includes U.S. citizens and nationals, asylees, refugees and lawful imperishable residents, for positions it had reserved for impermanent visa holders. Facebook sponsored the visa holders for "green cards" authorizing them to enactment permanently.

It is the largest civilian punishment and backpay grant ever recovered by the civilian rights part successful the 35-year past of enforcing anti-discrimination rules nether the Immigration and Nationality Act, officials said.

"Facebook is not supra the instrumentality and indispensable comply with our nation's civilian rights laws," Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke told reporters successful a telephone conference.

The suit was filed against Facebook past December by the Justice Department.

Facebook besides agreed successful a abstracted colony with the Labor Department to grow its recruitment for U.S. workers and to beryllium taxable to ongoing audits to guarantee compliance.

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