The performing head of the Trump administration’s Equivalent Employment Alternative Fee (EEOC) is caution U.S. employers that there will likely be prison and fiscal penalties for “anti-American bias” in opposition to American employees all over hiring.
The EEOC is a federal company charged with imposing rules in opposition to job discrimination and harassment.
Andrea Lucas, performing EEOC chair, issued a stark caution on Wednesday through which she put employers “on understand” and stated she will likely be prioritizing protective American employees from unlawful discrimination.
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President Donald Trump and performing EEOC Chair Andrea R. Lucas (Getty/EEOC )
Lucas stated biases in opposition to American citizens in hiring is a “large-scale drawback in a couple of industries,” together with agriculture, production and blue-collar jobs. She stated this discrimination has considerably contributed to the migrant crisis through motivating extraterrestrial beings to defy U.S. legislation to get jobs.
Addressing employers without delay, Lucas stated: “The legislation applies to you, and also you aren’t above the legislation.”
“If you’re a part of the pipeline contributing to our immigration disaster or abusing our prison immigration device by way of unlawful personal tastes in opposition to American employees, you should prevent,” she warned.
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Migrants line up on the southern border in San Diego, June 6, 2024. (Fox Information)
In an interview with Fox Information Virtual, Lucas stated the unfairness to desire inexpensive exertions through unlawful immigrants has led to “critical hurt” to American households and full communities. She stated responding to the immigration disaster is an “administration-wide effort” and that the EEOC “can play a job in that through making sure that [employers} are not engaging in national-origin discrimination.”
“We do need to find a way to decrease the economic incentives for employers to want to be abusing the holes that are in our immigration system,” she explained. “It’s a broad, multiracial class of individuals who are being harmed by this, and they’re all tied together behind a common characteristic that they’re Americans, and they have been let down by the businesses in their communities, and they have been discriminated against.”
Under President Donald Trump, Lucas said that is going to change.
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“President Trump is all about fighting for the working Americans,” she said. “Part of that is making sure that jobs that people are qualified for they actually have a fair and fighting chance to compete for, as opposed to being automatically discriminated against in favor of importing foreign workers.”
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Lucas pointed to the EEOC’s successful track record of advocating for discriminated against American workers by suing the offending employer and at times winning multimillion-dollar cases.
This enforcement mechanism, however, depends on American workers to stand up for their own rights.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission seal at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18, 2020. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“It’s really important for people to protect their rights,” said Lucas. “You can bring a charge, even if you’re just an applicant, you don’t have to have been an employee and fired, you can say: ‘I applied, I wanted to apply to this business and I believe that they are discriminating against us and against American workers in preference for foreign workers.’
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“We do have a large track record of large-scale, multimillion-dollar cases,” she said. “I expect that we’re going to continue to see significant cases because the caseload is there.”
