Justice Department Sues SpaceX for Discriminating Against Asylees and Refugees in Hiring
(www.justice.gov)
from stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to technology@lemmy.world on 25 Aug 2023 00:34
https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/378600
from stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to technology@lemmy.world on 25 Aug 2023 00:34
https://kbin.social/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/378600
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring. The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
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EDIT: see reply about why this isn’t true and I was wrong.
This is really stupid. The government puts all kinds of restrictions on SpaceX about having to have only US citizens work on rockets, which is their whole business, and is now suing them for only hiring US citizens. Don’t get me wrong, discrimination is wrong, but this is legally required descrimination from the same group mad about the discrimination
Um, no?
I apologize, I stand corrected. The export control law does exist, but asylees and refugees are in the allowed group. Thank you for the context
Upvote for correcting yourself without taking the knife out. You got dignity.
For those of you who are also asking “wtf is an asylee?” It appears to be a correct term for a person seeking asylum.