Cloudera agrees to pay $2 million to the DOJ and DOL for discriminating against US workers.
A California-based tech firm, Cloudera, has reached a settlement of $2 million with the Department of Justice and the Department of Labor on allegations that the company discriminated against qualified US workers when it filed for Green Cards for its foreign workers. Cloudera’s Green Card ban was announced earlier — before the Donald Trump administration banned the Green Card process of eight major tech companies, including Microsoft and Adobe. Additionally, the company will be banned from the Green Card process for two years. Cloudera’s case is different as there was a lawsuit filed against Cloudera in April this year.
The PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) process is the mandatory first step for US employers sponsoring a foreign national for an employment-based green card (typically EB-2 or EB-3). It is designed to prove to the US Department of Labor (DOL) that there are no qualified, willing, and available US workers for the job, and that hiring the foreign worker will not lower local wages. But Cloudera asked applicants to send their applications an email address that did not accept outside emails.