Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess (not pictured) attend a session during a visit to the Volkswagen Digital Lab in Berlin on February 27, 2019.
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Microsoft will update its hiring practices after the US Department of Justice finds that the software maker is asking for more information than is necessary about the citizenship status of applicants.
DOJ said on Tuesday, when announcing deal with Microsoft, that between February 2018 and January 2020, the company violated federal law by requiring six or more lawful permanent residents to “re-verify their authorization to continue working in the United States.”
Microsoft regularly sends work authorization verification emails to people who have presented their permanent resident card, and it requires at least three employees, who became lawful residents after joining Microsoft, to present their card. their identities, the agreement said.
The company will pay a small fine to the US Treasury Department and has agreed to stop certain activities, such as requiring employees with permanent resident status to upload copies of their green cards. Microsoft must also have U.S. immigration staff undergo training presentations from the Department of Justice.
Microsoft and partner Apple, Facebook, and Google, for example, regularly rely on immigrants to expand their workforces in the US and have spent heavily on lobbying efforts to make it easier to hire talent from abroad. easier. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who give up his green card to secure an H-1B visa after relocating to the United States from India, was promote immigration reform.
Microsoft has between companies that pushed back the previous Trump administration’s attempt to repeal the Obama-era Deferred Action for Children Program, or DACA, which protects some immigrants who came to the United States illegally when children from deportation and help them get work permits. Last year, the US Supreme Court rule to keep DACA in place.
A Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that the company is addressing the issues raised in the DOJ’s investigation and resolution.
“We hire and qualify tens of thousands of people, and a few have been mistakenly asked for additional information or documents,” a spokesperson said. “We appreciate our need to prevent these mistakes and have worked to address these issues and improve our internal processes as part of our commitment to compliance. “
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