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Re:Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminati... by emteycz on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:50PM (#25294671)
You want foreigners for diversity of workplace and ideas, for their different perspectives, for their direct exposure and intrinsic knowledge of their home countries, for the different expertise taught at their different schools...
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Re:Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminati... by umanwizard on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:16PM (#25295090)
That has nothing to do with why Facebook wants to hire foreigners.

Facebook wants to hire foreigners because they want to hire essentially everyone who passes their interviews, and only some subset of those are American.

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Re:Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminati... by disposekinetics on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:06PM (#25294920)
Title VII of the civil rights act makes it illegal to classify applicants on the basis of national origin. If you are taking that into consideration while hiring you are in violation of the civil rights act.
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Re:Justice Dept files suit against Facebook for discriminati... by emteycz on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:01PM (#25295793)
National origin is not the only way to measure diversity.

Anyways, thankfully neither me nor my company is in the USA. If this is the reason why one can't build a diverse workplace, you built a very sad country.

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