DOJ says it will ensure ‘college students are treated fairly and have an equal opportunity to compete for internships and jobs’
Georgia Institute of Technology must pay half a million dollars in civil penalties for running a job recruitment platform that included postings that excluded non-citizens.
The settlement came after a “lawful permanent resident” student filed a complaint with the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
“The student alleged that a bank advertised a U.S. citizen-only internship on Georgia Tech’s career services website,” the department stated in its news release .“Upon investigating the student’s complaint, the department uncovered additional unlawful discriminatory advertisements on Georgia Tech’s job recruiting platform that discouraged or restricted certain non-U.S. citizen students from applying,” the Justice Department stated. The College Fix reached out to the Justice Department’s media team for further comment, but it has not responded in the past week. Georgia Tech has also not responded to a […]
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