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DOJ sues SpaceX alleging hiring discrimination against refugees and asylum recipients

  • The U.S. Department of Justice sued SpaceX on Thursday, alleging Elon Musk’s space company discriminated in its hiring practices against refugees and people granted asylum in the U.S.
  • The lawsuit says between 2018 and 2022, SpaceX “wrongly claimed” that export control laws limited its hiring to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.
  • The DOJ has been investigating SpaceX since June 2020, when the department’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section received a complaint of employment discrimination from a non-U.S. citizen.
dogslayeggs , (edited )

I’ll start this with saying how much I hate Elon and dealing with SpaceX in general. I changed my position in my company so that I wouldn’t have to deal with SpaceX any more.

I sympathize with SpaceX on this one. Many of their employees need Secret clearance, which requires citizenship. Of those that don’t need clearance, the vast majority of the rest still deal with information that is ITAR or CUI/NOFORN controlled and either requires citizenship (NOFORN means what it sounds like) or requires very specific levels of compliance for who can view information.

EDIT: ITAR allows political asylees and green card holders to view information, but CUI/NOFORN only allows US citizens to view it.

So if you want to have a company where people can move freely around the company either based on their career goals or based on what the company needs at the time, or where the employees can freely trade information with their coworkers without fear of violating confusing laws (this isn’t like blatantly labeled classified information) because they don’t know who can and can’t view information, then having everyone cleared to view the information that most people need to see is almost required. Hiring people who can’t see the information that 90% of the company can and do see on a regular basis leads to a segregated workforce.

I’m not sure if they can legally do a blanket hiring policy like this (they probably can’t based on this lawsuit), but I don’t think there was any malicious intent… unlike their other hiring practices lawsuits.

rambaroo ,

$5000 slap on the wrist incoming.

sugarfree ,
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What a waste of time.

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