Facebook Showed Widespread Discrimination
While Facebook is already fighting over user privacy issues all over the world, the US Justice Department has stamped it with a new headache. As per a lawsuit filed by DoJ against Facebook, the company was involved in widespread discrimination against US workers. It’s alleged to be favoring the H1-B and other temporary Visa holders over local workers in employment. This was said to happen for more than 2,600 job positions. It’s said to be creating a hiring system where some new jobs were removed from the company’s career webpage and notified only to some (temporary Visa holders). This special channel gave them an unfair advantage in employment over qualified US workers. Also, the lawsuit also states that some high-paying jobs were reserved for these temporary Visa holders, in connection with the Permanent Labor Certification Process (PERM). The PERM is governed by the Department of Labor, which allows such reservations only if the company proves that applicants were not qualified for such job positions. Since Facebook didn’t let them know, qualified US workers had no chance of applying. Also, Facebook is alleged to be trapping temporary Visa holders in jobs with low job mobility for years. This lawsuit was now filed after two years of investigation into Facebook’s practices. Now, the DoJ seeks civil penalties against Facebook for these practices, along with back pay to affected US workers. Facebook denied these allegations and said to dispute the complaint. US Justice Department May Separate Chrome From Google Cloudflare Workers Exploited by BlackWater Malware For C2 Communications Best Security Practices for Web Hosting
