Lone Crusader Wins Battle Against Anti-Citizen Discrimination by Tech Firm
By David North on December 10, 2020
DOJ
Robert Heath, a skilled IT worker and a U.S. citizen, operating without a lawyer, has won an important battle with a Dallas-area corporation that published advertisements saying it was interested in hiring specific classes of aliens; in other words, it was discriminating against U.S. citizens, according to a Justice Department press release.
The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division on December 8 approved a settlement among Heath (the "charging party"), the Department, and Ikon Systems of Frisco, Texas, the recruiting firm in question. The key section of the settlement is this:
[The government's] investigation found that ... Ikon posted at least eight job advertisements for information technology ("IT") positions that solicited applications from non-U.S. citizens with immigration statuses associated with certain employment-based visas, and in so doing, harmed U.S. workers (U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, recent lawful permanent residents, asylees, and refugees) by unlawfully deterring or failing to consider them for hire, including the Charging Party.
https://cis.org/North/Lone-Crusader-Wins-Battle-Against-AntiCitizen-Discrimination-Tech-Firm
