Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice is expanding its initiative to crack down on businesses that discriminate against American job-seekers.
Sessions’ DOJ signed a memorandum with the Department of Labor to expand collaboration of the Civil Rights Division’s “Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative” that seeks to protect Americans from being discriminated against and passed over for foreign guest workers who enter the U.S. on employment visas.
“Employers should hire workers based on their skills, experience, and authorization to work; not based on discriminatory preferences that violate the law,” Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division said in a statement. “Our partnership with [the Department of Labor] … significantly enhances the Civil Rights Division’s ability to identify employers that favor temporary visa holders over U.S. workers who can do the job.”
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4 comments:
Dave T: I simply can't believe this government is doing much of anything to help workers. It certainly doesn't show. Numbers are improving, but many folks are still suffering from the aftermath of the Obozo years.
What do you want, workers with experience and education, or applicants whose only qualification is the color of their skin?
Sessions should look at corporations that use "Contract" employees that aren't really employees and don't have any protections.
If a corporation has a contract employee for more than 4 months they should be required to either dismiss or hire permanently
Any programs that favor one group or another based off of anything other than merit are forms of discrimination.
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