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San Francisco-based OpenAI OpCo LLC and its software development subsidiary Statsig Inc. agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle allegations they discriminated against U.S. workers in favor of foreign workers during recruitment and hiring related to the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) process, the U.S. Department of Justice announced August 4.
OpenAI and Statsig denied the allegations and the findings, the settlement said.
Under PERM, employers may sponsor foreign workers for permanent resident status if they recruit in good faith and can’t find qualified U.S. workers, DOJ explained in the announcement.
According to the settlement, investigators for DOJ’s Immigration and Employee Rights (IER) section, a component of the Civil Rights DIvision, found that during the companies’ PERM recruitment process, they didn’t advertise the jobs they sought to fill through the PERM program on OpenAI’s external website, even though their standard practice was to do so for other positions.
