A tech company based in Loudoun County, Virginia, has been fined by the Department of Justice after it advertised that it was seeking “white” candidates for an open job posting.
The job posting by Ashburn-based Arthur Grand Technologies Inc. was published in March 2023 and said that the company was only looking for “U.S. Born Citizens [white] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don’t share with candidates],” according to a Justice Department news release.
The Civil Rights Division’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section opened an investigation in May 2023 and “determined that Arthur Grand discriminated based on citizenship status and national origin after a recruiter working for Arthur Grand’s subsidiary in India posted the advertisement on the job website Indeed.”
Following that posting, the advertisement was widely circulated online. An investigation by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs determined that the company advertised for an open business analyst position in Dallas through a public online hiring site.
“It is shameful that in the 21st century, we continue to see employers using ‘whites only’ and ‘only US born’ job postings to lock out otherwise eligible job candidates of color,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in the release. “I share the public’s outrage at Arthur Grand’s appalling and discriminatory ban on job candidates based on citizenship status, national origin, color and race.”
As part of a Justice Department settlement, Arthur Grand will pay a civil penalty and will train its personnel on the INA’s requirements, revise its employment policies and be subject to departmental monitoring.
Arthur Grand must also pay compensation to those who filed complaints with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
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Maybe they were looking for somebody who did not sound like Jamal, Jesus or Apu, but even if you need a white texan, there are many ways to screen the applicant and need not to put those requirements in writing…..never put anything in writing.
I do my own hiring, and I am not a racist, BUT there are qualities that I am looking in a candidate that if I put them in writing, some candidates may find a lawyer that would twist them around a race or cultural issue and sue me.
In my opinion, people should work with people they feel comfortable with. If a company is private, take no government contracts, they should hire whoever they want….nobody is checking with rappers OR black/latino entrepreneurs if they are hiring enough white people in their companies.
Evil Hitlerite/Communist/liar/criminal/warmonger Jokementia Bribery posted that no whites, males, straight, normal people need apply for the Govt. job as his VP… WHY isn’t Jokementia in prison?
Yep, two tier ‘justice’…
It is Strange, in this country of the double standards, and Fake Elected representation, that the DOJ selectively picks who it wants for Political persecutions, as it did Nothing when the Broadway Play, “Hamilton” advertised (when first casting),in the Backstage Newspaper that “Whites need not apply”!! Was not that worthy of Investigation and $$ Fines??
When Government sanctions Racism, they are No-better then the Racists!!
“For Whites Only” such announcements were on trams, in schools, in parks. The result was a revolution.—This is something to remember forever Technology company based in Loudoun County, Virginia. This is a racial crime against a PERSON!
A company has a right to hire who they want; it’s their owned company. Why is OK to give scholarships to only black apply, go to Harvard and Yale and yet don’t have the money or brains. Or black companies only taking blacks and whites need not apply. I can’t count how many times I hear, no need to apply if white. SICK OF IT. Whites are tired of being treated inferior because 150yrs. ago some whites owned slaves. Blacks get over it, slavery is over, and you have every avenge as every white has at school, college, good jobs but YOU have to work for it. There are more blacks in Joey’s cabinet and their all idiots.