TEMPE, Arizona (USANN4)–An Arizona community college district has settled a federal hiring-discrimination lawsuit. The Maricopa County Community College District will pay nearly $68,000 in penalties and back pay, according to the Justice Department. In the suit, the district had been accused of hiring discrimination against non-citizens.
It was also accused of preventing newly hired non-citizens from starting their jobs by requiring them to produce documents that it did not require U.S. citizens to produce and were not mandated by federal law. The department says among those harmed was a permanent resident who had accepted an adjunct mathematics faculty appointment.
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