Responding to allegations by a U.S. citizen formerly employed by technology company Sun Microsystems, the U.S. Department of Justice is looking into the company?s personnel practices to determine if it discriminatorily favors foreign workers with H1-B visas discriminates over U.S. citizens. The allegations are based on the fact that Sun has continued to apply for H1-B technology visas for foreign workers even as it laid off several thousand workers. The company insists that the visas it applied for are for current staff who are entitled to the same anti-discrimination protections as citizens under U.S. law, and has accused the former employee of wanting them to discriminatorily give him preference based on his citizenship.
See "Sun accused of worker discrimination U.S. citizen employee says he was canned in favor of foreigners", BENJAMIN PIMENTEL, San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 2002