--- title: OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle a US claim it favoured visa... description: OpenAI has agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle a US Justice Department claim that it discriminated against American workers during the Permanent Labor... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-pays-3-2m-to-settle-a-us-claim-it-favoured-visa-workers-over-americans-n6wf6mzce twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle a US claim it favoured visa workers over Americans | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI has agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle a US Justice Department claim that it discriminated against American workers during the Permanent Labor... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-pays-3-2m-to-settle-a-us-claim-it-favoured-visa-workers-over-americans-n6wf6mzce og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/N6wf6MZCE.png og:image:alt: OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle a US claim it favoured visa workers over Americans og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle a US claim it favoured visa workers over Americans **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI has agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle a US Justice Department claim that it discriminated against American workers during the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) process. The DOJ's Civil Rights Division found that OpenAI and its subsidiary Statsig violated the Immigration and Nationality Act by not posting PERM roles on its public careers site, requiring paper mail applications for those roles, and advertising some positions on late-night radio — practices that effectively discouraged American applicants while favoring temporary visa holders. Of the settlement, $1.2m goes to civil penalties and $2m to a compensation fund for affected workers. OpenAI also agreed to reform its recruitment practices, retrain staff, and submit to DOJ monitoring. This is the DOJ's thirteenth such settlement since relaunching its Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative in 2025. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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