Green Card ban: Tech firm Cloudera agrees to pay $2 million and accepts 2-year ban from PERM for discrimination

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. Additionally, the company will be banned from the Green Card process for two years. 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. Cloudera's case is different as there was a lawsuit filed against Cloudera in April this year.There are no exceptions: Harmeet K Dhillon“There are no exceptions: the Justice Department will hold accountable employers who discriminate against US workers,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This substantial settlement, in partnership with DOL, sends a strong signal to employers that the federal government will work together to ensure employers treat US workers fairly.”In April, DOJ filed a lawsuit alleg...