“…The suit alleges the property engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination in the employment eligibility verification and reverification process…The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires employers to treat all authorized workers equally during the hiring, firing and employment eligibility verification process, 
regardless of their national origin or citizenship status.”
The suit seeks an unspecified fine and “full remedial relief to work-authorized non-U.S. citizen employees for the losses they have suffered, including back pay and reinstatement.â€
The U.S. Justice Department is suing the Tuscany Suites & Casino in Las Vegas over allegations the property discriminated against non-U.S. citizen job applicants and employees over a five-year period. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C., last week announced it filed a lawsuit against the hotel-casino in the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer of the agency and served the company on May 29. The complaint alleges:
- Tuscany treated non-citizens differently from U.S. citizens during the employment eligibility verification and reverification process by requesting non-citizen employees provide more or different documents or information than was required.
- Tuscany subjected lawful permanent residents to unnecessary reverification procedures based on their citizenship status. These are workers with Permanent Resident Cards (green cards).
The suit says the Tuscany had been hit with a discrimination complaint in early 2011 by an unidentified “charging party,†and that in October the Justice Department’s Office of Special Counsel notified the Tuscany “it was expanding the investigation to include a possible pattern or practice of document abuse against non-U.S. citizens.â€
For more:Â http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2012/jun/04/justice-department-alleges-las-vegas-casino-discri/
