Transamerica Life Insurance Co. has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by policyholders who alleged it improperly increased monthly charges on their universal life insurance policies. The agreement requires Walter J. Willoughby Jr., MD., Ltd to pay $42,500 to the affected worker and a civil penalty to the United States. Macys Retail (Unfair Documentary Practices) June 2013. Under the settlement agreement, ChemArt will, among other things, pay a $3,000 civil penalty to the United States, provide back pay to the worker, train its staff on the requirements of 8 U.S.C. UPS asked for the additional documents after getting a data entry error notification from the propriety software program the company uses to access E-Verify and verify workers permission to work. On December 30, 2011, the Department of Justice issued a press release announcing it reached a settlement agreement with Garland Sales, Inc., a Georgia-based rug manufacturer, resolving allegations that the company engaged in a pattern or practice of Unfair Documentary Practices against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens. On June 3, 2020, IER signed a settlement agreement with ChemArt, a Rhode Island manufacturing company, resolving claims that the company discriminated against a worker during the employment eligibility verification process and then retaliated against her. On August 17, 2021, IER signed a settlement agreement with Ameritech Global, Inc (Ameritech), resolving a reasonable cause finding that Ameritech discriminated against U.S. workers (U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, recent lawful permanent residents, asylees, and refugees) by posting job advertisements specifying a preference for applicants with temporary work visas and failing to consider at least three U.S. worker applicants who nevertheless applied to the advertised positions. Feltham and her husband, Mathieu A. Leonelli, (collectively, plaintiffs) filed a lawsuit alleging Villegas's employer, Universal Protection Service, LP, erroneously sued as Allied Universal Corporation (Allied), was liable for Villegas's negligence. The settlement agreement requires that Mrs. Fields pay a civil penalty of $26,400, train relevant employees about the requirements of 8 U.S.C. On June 27, 2016, the Division issued a press release announcing it reached an agreement with Crookham Company to resolve a pattern or practice of requesting specific immigration documents from non-U.S. citizens for the Form I-9 and E-Verify processes. On January 4, 2012, the Department of Justice issued a press release announcing it reached settlement agreement with the University of California San Diego Medical Center, resolving a complaint filed on December 6, 2011, alleging that the medical center failed to comply with proper employment eligibility verification processes for non-citizens who are authorized to work in the United States. The Division's investigation established that La Farine required a non-U.S. citizen, but not similarly-situated U.S. citizens, to produce more documents than necessary for the purpose of re-verifying employment eligibility. Autobuses Ejecutivos, LLC d/b/a Omnibus Express (Citizenship Status) August 2013. Under the settlement agreement, the City of Waterloo has agreed to pay $13,000 in civil penalties to the United States, to provide the charging party with another opportunity to apply for the position, and to hire or otherwise compensate the charging party if the charging party's performance on the city's hiring tests confirm that he would have been hired but for the discrimination. On August 5, 2015, the Division issued a press release announcing it reached a settlement agreement with the City of Eugene, Oregon, to resolve allegations that it required applicants for police officer positions be a U.S. citizen at the time of application. Under the settlement agreement, Crop Production Services paid a civil penalty of $10,500, agreed that staff involved in the hiring process for the El Campo location would participate in Division-provided training on the antidiscrimination provision of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA), committed to review and revise its hiring policies, and acknowledged that it would be subject to Division monitoring and reporting requirements for up to two years. Complaint Press Release Complaint, American Cleaning Company (Unfair Documentary Practices) October 2016. Under the provisions of the agreement, the Denver Sheriff Department will among other things, pay $10,000 in civil penalties, eliminate any citizenship requirements in current and future postings for the deputy sheriff position, and ensure that its staff members are properly trained. Settlement Press Release Settlement Agreement, Lady M Confections Co, Ltd and Lady M West Third, LLC (Citizenship Status) Novmeber 2022. IERs investigation found that SV Donuts unlawfully rejected a charging partys valid Form I-9 documents and requested an additional immigration document because of his status as a non-U.S. citizen, and delayed hiring him because he failed to present the requested additional document. R-Tronics restricted employment to U.S. citizens, despite the fact that no law, regulation, executive order, or government contract required the limitation. 1324b(a)(6). On October 15, 2015, the Justice Department issued a press release announcing it reached a settlement agreement with North American Shipbuilding, resolving an OSC investigation. Under the agreement Commercial Cleaning Systems will pay $53,500 in civil penalties to the United States, set aside a fund of twenty five thousand dollars ($25,000) to compensate work-authorized individuals who suffered economic damages, revise its employment eligibility verification policies, and be subject to monitoring of its employment eligibility verification practices for one year. On March 19, 2020, the Division signed a settlement agreement with Hallaton Inc., a construction company headquartered in Sparks, MD. Crop Production Services, Inc. (Citizenship Status) September 2017. On July 14, 2011, the Department issued a press release announcing it filed a complaint against Mar-Jac Poultry Inc. alleging that it required all newly-hired non-U.S. citizen employees to present documents issued by the Department of Homeland Security for the Form I-9. When UPS received the notification, the company asked the worker for additional documents instead of checking for a simple data entry error, as the company did when it received such notices for U.S. citizen workers. The investigation revealed that the company had a pattern or practice of requesting more or different documents from lawful permanent residents when their Permanent Resident Cards expired. On April 1, 2019, IER signed a settlement agreement with the Housing Authority of Victoria, Texas (Housing Authority), resolving a charge-based investigation. International, Inc. (Unfair Documentary Practices) May 2021. The settlement also resolved IERs reasonable cause finding that Navajo had a policy of unlawfully reverifying lawful permanent residents in violation of 8 U.S.C. Standard TyTape Company, Inc. (Unfair Documentary Practices) February 2015. Mortons Steakhouse (Citizenship Status, Unfair Documentary Practices) June 2010. Under the settlement agreement, the company will pay a civil penalty to the United States, train its employees on anti-discrimination obligations, and be subject to departmental reporting requirements. On October 25, 2012, the Department of Justice issued a press release announcing a settlement agreement with Advantage Home Care, LLC, formerly known as Executive Care, LLC, based in Hackensack, NJ, resolving claims that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), when it required newly hired lawful permanent residents to provide more or different documents than U.S. citizens during the Form I-9 employment eligibility verification process. 1324b. (Suppl. The company did not utilize these additional procedures when it ran U.S. Citizens through E-Verify. Settlement Press Release Settlement Agreement, JP Senior Healthcare, LLCand JP Senior Management, LLC(Unfair Documentary Practices) August 2021. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Postal Express will pay a $1,000 civil penalty to the United States, train employees on the anti-discrimination provision of the INA, and revise company policies to avoid discrimination in the employment eligibility verification process. IER also determined that Gap discriminated against some non-U.S. citizens by requesting that they provide specific documents to confirm that they still had permission to work. On May 14, 2010, the Division reached a settlement agreement with Valley Crest Landscape Companies and Charging Parties resolving allegations of hiring discrimination based on citizenship/immigration status based due to a claimed preference on the part of Valley Crest to hire non-immigrant foreign workers under the H-2B visa program rather than U.S. workers. Class Action Settlements Class Action Settlements Below we list the current class action settlements we have been able to locate. Levy Restaurants (Unfair Documentary Practices) February 2017. Allied Universal and four employees who accused it of cheating them and other workers out of pay, and giving Black security officers less lucrative assignments, resolved the workers lawsuit, New York federal court records show. IERs investigation therefore concluded that WesPak engaged in unfair documentary practice based on citizenship status, in violation of 8 U.S.C. AllianceIT (Citizenship Status) August 2020. Akeya Griffith filed the case against Allied Universal Security Services LLC and subsidiary Universal Protection Services LLC in federal court July 25 on behalf of herself and similarly situated workers. (DJ# 197-39-150), Microsoft Corporation (Citizenship Status) December 2021. The agreement requires R.E.E. IER concluded that Amtex used recruiters working abroad who engaged in a pattern or practice of implementing clients unlawful citizenship or immigration status preferences for job candidates in or around January 2021 by: a) emailing job ads with discriminatory preferences that deterred potential candidates from applying, and b) refusing to consider at least two protected U.S. worker candidates for OPT preferred job opportunities, based on their citizenship or immigration status. The strawberry picking positions were filled by more than 300 H-2A workers and no U.S. workers. On April 8, 2011, the Department of Justice issued a press release announcing a settlement agreement with LF Staffing Services Inc. resolving allegations that it improperly pre-screened job applicants and rejected valid work authorization documents from certain immigrants. The settlement agreement requires the Company to, among other things, pay $14,430 in civil penalties, pay $11,177.60 in back pay to the charging party, train relevant human resources personnel on avoiding discrimination in the employment eligibility verification process, and be subject to Division monitoring and reporting. April 8, 2020. 1. 57.082 (2) (a) (1), Fla. Stat. The Divisions investigation, based on an advertisement on Respondents website, established that the Denver Sheriff Department engaged in a pattern or practice of citizenship discrimination in violation of 8 U.S.C. On January 31, 2006, the Division signed an agreement with Hispanic Associations of Colleges and Universities (HACU) addressing allegations that HACUs intern recruitment practices were in violation of the INAs anti-discrimination provision. to pay a civil penalty of $82,800 to the United States, pay $8,746.43 in lost wages to the charging party who filed the initial charge, train relevant human resources personnel on avoiding discrimination in the employment eligibility verification process, make policy changes, and be subject to Division monitoring and reporting. Under the terms of the agreement Sinai will pay a civil penalty of $7,000, train relevant employees about the requirements of 8 U.S.C. As part of the settlement agreement, the company will pay $1,100 in civil penalties, full back pay to one identified victim, and receive training on the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). On August 5, 2014, the Justice Department issued a press release announcing it reached a settlement agreement with Isabella Geriatric Center (IGC), a nursing home in New York City, resolving an allegation that the company engaged in a pattern or practice of citizenship status discrimination during the employment eligibility reverification process in violation of the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Further, the investigation established that ComForcare requested that non-U.S. citizens and persons perceived to be non-U.S. citizens produce a List A employment eligibility document to establish their employment eligibility rather than allowing these individuals to show their choice of valid documentation. The lawsuit alleges that Allied Universal forced Security Agents, Operations Assistants and Supervisors to work "off-the-clock" before their scheduled shifts, during meal breaks, following the completion of their scheduled hours and while traveling between posts on JFK property, among other allegations. On October 6, 2017, the Division signed a settlement agreement with CitiStaff Solutions, Inc., a Los Angeles-area staffing agency, and a related entity CitiStaff Management Group, Inc., (together, CitiStaff) resolving an investigation into the companys employment eligibility verification (Form I-9 and E-Verify) practices. IERs investigation concluded that Technology Hub excluded asylees, refugees and U.S. nationals when advertising certain vacancies for only U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. CitiStaff Solutions, Inc.and CitiStaff Management Group, Inc. (Unfair Documentary Practices) October 2017. Law Resources will pay an additional $3,000 civil penalty for its retaliation and offer $11,875 in back pay to the Charging Party. Diversified Maintenance Systems, LLC (Retaliation) September 2012. IER concluded that SpringShine placed an advertisement which by its plain language was directed only to workers seeking H-1B visa sponsorship, which unlawfully deterred U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees from applying for the employment opportunities. 1324b(a)(6). Under the settlement agreement, the Office of the Sheriff's employment eligibility verification practices will be subject to monitoring by the Justice Department and reporting requirements for a period of three years. Eligibility: Canadian resident as of May 25, 2016 who purchased the PC version of Microsoft's Word, Excel, Office, Works Suite, or Home Essentials, MS-DOS or Windows operating system between December 23, 1998 and March 11, 2010. Paramount Staffing (Unfair Documentary Practices) September 2013. 2. On March 21, 2017, the Division signed a settlement agreement with Respondent resolving an investigation into the companys employment eligibility verification practices. The company also agreed to training and monitoring requirements for a period of 18 months. The settlement agreement requires the Companies to, among other things, pay $159,000 in civil penalties, train relevant human resources personnel on avoiding discrimination in the employment eligibility verification process, and undergo departmental monitoring and reporting. E-Verify is an Internet-based electronic verification system used by employers and administered by USCIS that confirms an individual's employment eligibility. 1324b(a)(6). Crop Production Services also paid back pay totaling $ 18,738.75 in a separate agreement with the three citizens denied employment. Among other things, the agreement required Kmart to pay the charging party $13,800 in back pay to the Charging Party, pay $14,000 in civil penalties to the United States, and ensure that relevant human resources personnel participate in training on the anti-discrimination provision of the INA. The settlement agreement provided for various remedies, including back pay for any injured parties, training, monitoring, and a civil penalty of $250,000. Settlement Press Release Settlement Agreement, Barrios Street Realty LLC (Citizenship Status) March 2016. Mrs. Fields' Original Cookies, Inc. (Unfair Documentary Practies) December 2018. On September 11, 2012, OSC filed a complaint asserting that Estopy Farms, a Texas cotton farm, committed citizenship status discrimination when it preferred a visaholder over a U.S. citizen. Under the settlement agreement, the company will pay a civil penalty of $220,000 to the United States. Brand agreed to pay $43,560 in civil penalties and $7,200 in back pay to an identified victim. Under the settlement agreement, the company will pay the maximum civil penalty for an instance of retaliation, post notices informing workers about their rights under the INAs anti-discrimination provision, train its staff, and be subject to departmental monitoring and reporting requirements for one year. Complaint Press Release Complaint, Technical Marine Maintenance Texas (Unfair Documentary Practices) July 2017. Florida Power & Light Debt-Collection Emails Class Action Lawsuit Claim Form Deadline: June 20, 2022 Who's Eligible: The settlement benefits Flordians who received debt collection emails from Florida Power & Light Company between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m. EST Oct. 16, 2019, through Oct. 15, 2021. 1324b, and undergo departmental monitoring for two years. I n its lawsuit, the SEC has asked that all defendants, including Marcus, "disgorge their ill-gotten gains, plus pre-judgment interest." SEC Compl. La Farine Bakery (Unfair Documentary Practices) November 2014. Amtex is an IT recruitment company that, among other things, identifies candidates for third parties who are seeking IT professionals. The Department concluded that the companys unlawful practice of restricting job vacancies to U.S. citizens and in some cases, to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, was based on a misinterpretation of the requirements under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Under the settlement agreement, the company will pay $40,600 to the United States, and conduct enhanced U.S. worker recruitment and advertising for future positions. Parties and lawyers to a class action can register on the Commonwealth Courts Portal (CCP) to access information about the case, . After investigating, IER determined that Triple H did not consider certain U.S. citizens for employment as landscapers in 2017 because it preferred to hire temporary foreign H-2B visa workers. The Divisions investigation revealed sufficient evidence to show that Respondent had a pattern or practice of requesting List A documents from newly-hired lawful permanent residents (LPRs) because of their citizenship status, while not making similar requests of U.S. citizens. The lawsuit claims the defendants . On June 19, 2018, the Division signed a settlement agreement with Setpoint Systems, Inc., resolving a reasonable cause finding that the company engaged in citizenship status discrimination in violation of 8 U.S.C. Settlement Press Release Settlement Agreement Back Pay Survey, Bel USA, LLC (Unfair Documentary Practices) July 2020. The Sheriff's Office fully cooperated with the investigation and agreed to revise its hiring policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the INA's anti-discrimination provision. ComForcare will also train its human resources staff about employers' responsibilities to avoid discrimination in the employment eligibility verification process and be subject to reporting and compliance monitoring by the department for 18 months. IERs investigation concluded that the company (1) engaged in a pattern or practice of recruiting and hiring only U.S. citizens or U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents for certain positions without legal justification, in violation of 8 U.S.C. Under the settlement agreement, Freedom Home Care will pay $832 in back pay to the Charging Party and $400 in civil penalties. In addition, the district will receive training on the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and provide periodic reports to the department for a period of three years. The Division's investigation established that the Office of the Sheriff improperly restricted law enforcement positions to U.S. citizens notwithstanding the fact that no law, regulation, executive order or government contract authorized it to restrict employment in this manner. 1324b(a)(1)(B). The settlement also requires LNK to train employees on the requirements of the INAs anti-discrimination provision and subjects it departmental monitoring and reporting requirements for three years. The agreement requires CitiStaff to pay a civil penalty of $200,000 to the United States, train relevant recruiting staff on avoiding discrimination in the employment eligibility verification process, make needed policy changes, and be subject to Division monitoring and reporting. IERs investigation concluded that Aerojet misunderstood its obligations under government contracts and with federal regulations, such as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). In 2019, Desjardins learned it had been the victim of a data breach for over two years, during which time a rogue employee stole sensitive customer information. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the Respondent will pay $320,000 in civil penalties, provide back pay to an economic victim, comply with specific injunctive and corrective action requirements, and be subject to monitoring for a three year period. 1324b(a)(6) at the Pasco Processing facility. Complaint Press Release ComplaintAmended Complaint, Tuscany Hotel and Casino, LLC (Citizenship Status, Unfair Documentary Practices) May 2012. On September 21, 2022, IER signed settlement agreements with four employers that posted job advertisements with unlawful citizenship status restrictions, for a total of $331,520 in civil penalties. Maricopa County Community College District (Unfair Documentary Practices) May 2011. IERs charge-based and independent investigations found that Gap discriminated against certain workers by reverifying their permission to work, even though there was no legal reason to do so. Under the terms of the settlement, Setpoint will pay $17,475 in civil penalties to the United States, participate in Division-provided training on the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), review and revise its hiring policies, and be subject to Division monitoring and reporting. Pursuant to the settlement agreement, the employer will pay $700 in back pay to the charging party, pay $485 in civil penalties to the U.S., and receive training on the anti-discrimination provision. On August 7, 2014, the Justice Department issued a press release announcing it reached a settlement agreement with Travel Management Company, a private airplane charter company, resolving allegations that the company had a U.S. citizenship requirement for its commercial pilot positions and that the company eliminated non-citizens from consideration for employment on the basis of citizenship status. The Divisions investigation found that MDCPS required non-U.S. citizens to produce more documents than necessary for the purpose of verifying their employment eligibility, but did not make those requests of U.S. citizens. Allied Universal Security Services, LLC and North Central Mental Health: Case Number: 2:2022cv02392: Filed: June 6, 2022: Court: US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio: Presiding Judge: Edmund A Sargus: Referring Judge: Chelsey M Vascura: Nature of Suit: Labor: Family and Medical Leave Act: Cause of Action: 29 U.S.C. Auto Parts Antitrust. On August 14 2012, the Department of Justice issued a press release announcing that it reached a settlement agreement with Best Packing Services Employment Agency Inc. ("Best Packing"), resolving an allegation that the company committed discrimination when it delayed the start date of two refugees after impermissibly demanding that they provide specific Form I-9 documentation. On March 25, 2013, the Department of Justice issued a press release announcing it reached a settlement agreement with Poulan Pecan to resolve allegations that the company committed Unfair Documentary Practices against non-U.S. citizens in violation of the anti-discrimination provision of the INA. 1324b(a)(6). The company then employed only H-2A workers to do the higher-paying harvesting jobs. On May 7, 2020, the Division signed a settlement agreement with Randstad North America, Inc., to resolve claims arising from a charge-based investigation into the companys Form I-9 and E-Verify practices at its South Plainfield, New Jersey, location. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The agreement resolved allegations that the company rejected a work-authorized asylee, at both initial hire and when subsequently re-verifying the refugee's employment authorization, rejected the employee's valid driver's license and unrestricted Social Security card and required him to produce an Employment Authorization Document (EAD). The Divisions investigation determined that from at least Dec. 1, 2017, until at least June 1, 2018, Hallaton routinely discriminated against U.S. workers by failing to consider them for construction laborer positions. On November 29, 2021, IER signed a settlement agreement with Gap, Inc. (Gap), resolving claims that the company discriminated against certain non-U.S. citizens (including lawful permanent residents, refugees and asylees) and naturalized U.S. citizens because of their current or prior immigration status, in violation of 8 U.S.C. The anti-discrimination provision of the INA does not permit employers to express or imply a preference for temporary visa holders over U.S. workers. On November 12, 2019, IER entered into a settlement with Perspective Talent LLC to resolve investigations into whether the company refused to refer workers for employment based on their citizenship or immigration status. The settlement agreement requires Triple H to, among other things: 1) pay $15,600 in civil penalties; 2) engage in enhanced recruiting efforts for U.S. workers, beyond what the Department of Labor's program requires; 3) set aside a back pay fund of $85,000 to provide back pay to U.S. applicants who were unfairly denied employment; 4) undergo department-provided training on the anti-discrimination provision of the INA; and 5) undergo departmental reporting and monitoring. IERs investigation concluded that there was reasonable cause to believe Mr. Ks discriminated against the charging party, a lawful permanent resident, by rejecting her valid documentation establishing her work authorization and requesting more or different documents than necessary based on the workers citizenship status and/or national origin. On January 15, 2016, the Division signed a settlement agreement with Rio Grande Pak Foods, Ltd, a poultry processor, resolving two charges alleging that the company committed unfair documentary practices. On December 20, 2019, the Division signed a settlement agreement with Adecco USA Inc. (Adecco), resolving investigations into the companys employment eligibility verification policies and practices. Under the agreement, Palmetto is required to pay $42,000 in civil penalties to the United States, participate in IER-provided training on the anti-discrimination provision of the INA, make $35,000 available to fund back pay awards to U.S. workers denied employment, and be subject to departmental monitoring and reporting requirements for a three-year period. On June 30, 2017, the Division signed a settlement agreement with Sellaris Enterprises, Inc.,an Orlando, FL staffing agency, resolving an investigation into the companys Form I-9 employment eligibility verification practices. 1324b and how to contact OSC, and be subject to departmental monitoring of its hiring and recruiting practices for a period of three years. On December 18, 2017, the Division signed a settlement with Crop Production Services, Inc.resolving the Divisions suit alleging that the company discriminated against at least three United States citizens by declining to employ them as seasonal technicians in the companys El Campo, Texas location based on a preference for temporary foreign workers under the H-2A visa program. 1324b(a)(1)(B). 1324b, and comply with departmental monitoring requirements for two years. This difference in treatment violates 8 U.S.C. 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