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Facebook has agreed to pay up to $14.25 million<\/strong> to settle claims that it had favored H1B visa holders<\/strong> and other non-immigrant visa holders over US residents to fill high-paying jobs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States Justice Department had in December last year<\/strong> sued the social media firm on the grounds that it had declined to “hire<\/strong>, consider or hire” qualified American workers<\/strong> for thousands of positions. Instead, it said those jobs had been given to foreign workers holding temporary work visas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Menlo Park, California-based organization is among the top candidates for the H-1B visa program<\/strong> and the Permanent Labor Certification Program (PERM<\/strong>). Where it sponsors green cards<\/strong> or permanent residency permits for employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agreement with the Justice Department included payments of $4.75 million<\/strong> to the US government. And as much as $9.5 million<\/strong> to “eligible victims of Facebook’s alleged discrimination”, the Justice Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook agreed to pay $14.25 million to settle claims it favored H1B Visa Holders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to the claim, Facebook <\/strong>refused to recruit, consider, or hire qualified and available US workers. For more than 2,600 positions<\/strong> that the firm rather reserved for temporary visa holders<\/strong>. The positions that were the subject of the alleged discrimination offered an average salary of roughly $156,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the lawsuit, which was based on the department’s almost two-year investigation<\/strong>. Moreover, Facebook purposefully created a hiring system in which it denied qualified US workers<\/strong>. A fair opportunity to learn about and all for jobs. Rather, these were channeled to employees who Facebook wanted to sponsor for green cards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Policy change to benefit children of H-1B visa holders in the US<\/span><\/a>]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The organization said that the combined settlement<\/strong> is the largest ever collected by the agency\u2019s civil rights division<\/strong>. For violations of the anti-discrimination provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Also, the organization independently settled concerns raised by the US Labor Department<\/strong> this year about whether it had violated labor regulations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claim was filed towards the finish of previous US President Donald Trump’s tenure. Who had taken action against the H-1B visa process<\/strong>, making it tougher in a bid to secure jobs for US workers<\/strong>? Most tech organizations had voiced their interests that this was affecting their ability to do business. Also, given the lack of high-skilled tech talent <\/strong>available domestically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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