In a case that serves as a reminder that Title VII’s national origin discrimination protection extends to individuals of American national origin, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has settled charges with the operator of a job search website accused of running job postings that favored foreign nationals. The EEOC settled multiple charges of national origin discrimination with DHI Group alleging that the firm posted job advertisements that excluded or discouraged individuals of American national origin from applying. As part of the settlement, DHI Group will rewrite its programming, which the EEOC called artificial intelligence (AI), to scrape for potentially discriminatory keywords that appear in its customers’ new job postings.
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