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"The settlement resolves the department's claims that UPS
violated the Immigration and Nationality Act when it
discriminated against a non-U.S. citizen by requesting that he
present additional documents to prove his permission to work
after the worker had already provided sufficient proof," the
department said in a statement.
The Justice Department's probe had determined that UPS
discriminated against a newly hired lawful permanent resident in
Jacksonville, Florida, by asking him for his permanent resident
card and work visa to prove his legal authorization to work,
even though he had already shown his driver's license and
unrestricted Social Security card, which were sufficient proof,
it added.
UPS asked for the additional documents after getting a data
entry error notification from the propriety software program the
company uses to verify workers' authorization to work, the
department said in the statement.
UPS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Under the settlement, UPS will pay a civil penalty, train
employees about how to properly handle notices about data entry
errors, and be subject to department monitoring, according to
details of the settlement released by the Justice Department.
"When UPS received the notification, the company asked the
worker for additional documents instead of checking for a simple
data entry error, as the company did when it received such
notices for U.S. citizen workers," the Justice Department added.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Jonathan
Oatis and Matthew Lewis)
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