DOJ sues SpaceX for hiring discrimination

The US Division of Justice is suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX over allegations that it discriminated in opposition to asylees and refugees in hiring. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the DOJ claims from at the least September 2018 to Might 2022, SpaceX discouraged refugees and asylees from making use of to the corporate “by wrongly stating that SpaceX can solely rent U.S. residents and lawful everlasting residents.”

The lawsuit states SpaceX “did not pretty think about” and “refused to rent” the asylees and refugees who ended up making use of anyway. It additionally alleges that SpaceX “wrongly claimed” that the US’s export management legal guidelines allowed it to solely rent US residents and lawful residents. Moreover, the DOJ claims SpaceX employed “solely” US residents and inexperienced card holders from September 2018 to September 2020.

“Our investigation discovered that SpaceX did not pretty think about or rent asylees and refugees due to their citizenship standing and imposed what amounted to a ban on their rent no matter their qualification, in violation of federal legislation,” Kristen Clarke, the assistant legal professional normal of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, says in an announcement.

The DOJ is searching for truthful consideration and again pay for asylees and refugees who “have been deterred or denied employment” at SpaceX and can also be searching for civil penalties in an quantity that shall be decided in courtroom. Within the meantime, the DOJ is encouraging asylees and refugees to contact its Civil Rights Division’s Immigrant and Worker Rights Part (IER) in the event that they utilized to a job at SpaceX or have been discouraged from making use of to the corporate.