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Justice Dept. Settles Immigration-Related Discrimination Claim Against Four CA Car Reconditioning Companies

August 13, 2019 By sdcnews

The Department of Justice said today that it has reached a settlement agreement with four car reconditioning companies in California: Automotive Creations, Incorporate, Dynamic Auto Images, Incorporated., Prestige Auto Specialists, Incorporated., and Expert Automotive Reconditioning, Incorporated.

The settlement resolves the department’s investigation into whether the Companies violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against lawful permanent residents when verifying their authorization to work in the United States.

“The Civil Rights Division remains committed to ensuring that employers do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of citizenship, immigration status, or national origin when requesting documents to verify employees’ work authorization,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Civil Rights Division. “We commend the companies for their commitment to ensuring that all future documentary requests will comply with the law.”

The department’s independent investigation concluded that, from at least October 2015 through at least August 2018, the companies requested that lawful permanent residents produce unnecessary and specific immigration documents to prove their work authorization, even when they had provided other legally acceptable documents. The anti-discrimination provision of the INA prohibits employers from requesting more or different documents than necessary to prove work authorization based on the employees’ citizenship, immigration status, or national origin. All work-authorized individuals, regardless of citizenship status, have the right to choose which legally acceptable documents to present to demonstrate their ability to work in the United States.  

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Under the settlement, the companies will pay $159,000 in civil penalties to the United States and be subject to departmental monitoring and reporting requirements. Additionally, certain employees will be required to attend training on the requirements of the INA’s anti-discrimination provision.

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