A federal judge spent that the definition platforms must face a lawsuit accusing the company of preferring foreign workers against American citizens because of the low costs of employment.
On Tuesday, American judge Laurel Biller said that three American citizens claim that Mita refused to employ them even though their qualifications could move forward in their proposed collective actions.
Prosecutors – Information Technology Failure Poroshotamman Rajaram, EKTA Bhatia, and Data World – Qun Wang – between 2020 and 2024, were rejected due to identification functions due to the company’s “systematic preference” for visa owners. In response, Mita rejected the claims that it is unfounded and pledged to “defend strongly” itself.
Mita argued in her attempt to reject the case that there was no evidence of intended discrimination or evidence that the plaintiffs had been appointed if they were not American citizens.
However, Judge Biller cited statistics showing that 15 % of the American workforce in Meta bears H-1B visas, compared to only 0.5 % of the total American workforce. She also indicated the Meta 2021 agreement to pay up to 14.25 million dollars to settle federal claims that it routinely refused to consider American workers to fill jobs designated for visa holders.
“These allegations support the comprehensive complaint of the plaintiffs that they were not appointed because Mita prefers H-1B visa holders,” Breler wrote.
The United States government filed a lawsuit against Mita in December 2020, shortly before the end of former President Donald Trump’s term.
“We hope that the lawsuit will help treat patronage towards common visa workers in the technology industry. It will require the process of fully adding an additional application or legislative reform,” said Daniel -Law, a lawyer who represents the prosecutors, in an email.
The lawsuit was initially rejected in November 2022 when Rajaram was only named as a plaintiff. The Federal Appeal Court re -revived last June, citing a law during the era of the civil war that protects American citizens from discrimination in decades based on “strange”.
The same law, section 1981 of the Civil Rights Law of 1866, was used by conservative groups to challenge diversity initiatives in the workplace – an effort supported by Trump as well.
