Justice Department settles immigration-discrimination case with recruiting agency

The Justice Department settled with New Jersey-based IT recruiting agency Infosoft Solutions for $25,500, having claimed that the agency discriminated in the way it marketed open jobs.

The Justice Department claimed that, between July and August 2021, Infosoft Solutions, working as KForce Tech LLC, posted not less than six advertisements for open positions – however solely sought candidates in want of immigration sponsorship or who already had a short lived work visa.

In one occasion, they particularly narrowed the factors to individuals from India.

In doing so, Infosoft Solutions deterred employees who didn’t want sponsorship to work within the U.S., together with American residents, authorized everlasting residents, resident refugees, and asylum seekers, from making use of and being pretty thought of for employment.

Under the phrases of the settlement, Infosoft may also should retrain recruiters on necessities established by the Immigration and Nationality Act, revise firm insurance policies, and settle for compliance monitoring from the federal government.

Infosoft Solutions denies that it engaged in discriminatory hiring, in keeping with the settlement submitting. The firm has not but responded to a request for remark.

The settlement doesn’t preclude people from submitting circumstances accusing Infosoft of immigration-related discrimination, nor does it preclude the Justice Department Civil Rights Division’s Immigration and Employee Rights Section from investigating these allegations and submitting associated authorized complaints.