The Justice Department announced on December 3, 2012 that it reached an agreement with ComForcare In-Home Care & Senior Services, a home care provider for sick and elderly patients in Tigard, Ore.
The investigation stemmed from a charge filed by a naturalized U.S. citizen, who was not allowed to work for ComForcare after the company received an initial mismatch in her data in E-Verify, called a tentative non-confirmation. E-Verify is an Internet-based system run by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that confirms employment eligibility by comparing information from an employee’s Form I-9, the form that all new employees must complete upon hire, to data in the Department of Homeland Security’s and Social Security Administration’s records.
“This case illustrates the importance of following E-Verify rules consistently regardless of citizenship status or perceived status, or risk running afoul of the anti-discrimination provision,” said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “Subjecting naturalized citizens to heightened documentary standards that result in the loss of employment constitutes discrimination, and the Division is fully committed to enforcing the law that prohibits it.”
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