The IT giant allegedly made jobs harder for Americans to find and apply for while favoring foreign visa holders
OpenAI has agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle US government claims that it discriminated against American job applicants while favoring foreign workers with temporary visas.
The US Justice Department said on Tuesday that the tech giant and its subsidiary Statsig, which makes product development software, deliberately made some vacancies harder for American workers to find and apply for.
OpenAI allegedly failed to post the positions on its public careers website, required applicants to mail paper applications instead of applying electronically, and advertised some jobs on the radio late at night.
Officials said the measures discouraged Americans from applying, making it easier for the companies to claim that they could not find suitable domestic workers and justify hiring foreign visa holders instead.
“It is illegal to discriminate against US workers by preferring temporary visa holders for jobs,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said.
Under the settlement, OpenAI will pay $1.2 million in penalties and establish a $2 million fund to compensate people allegedly harmed by the recruitment practices. The company must also revise its hiring policies, publicly advertise relevant vacancies, accept electronic applications, train recruitment staff and submit to Justice Department monitoring.
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