Justice Department fines Va. tech firm over ‘whites only’ job posting

5/29/24

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from The Washington Post,
5/27/24:

Arthur Grand Technologies, an IT firm based in Ashburn, Va., will pay more than $38,000 in penalties for a job ad that sought only White U.S. citizens.

Arthur Grand Technologies did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon. CEO Sheik Rahmathullah told CNN that the company “vehemently denies any guilt or wrongdoing in relation to the discriminatory job posting.”

The hiring advertisement was an unauthorized posting “made by an upset employee on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) from their personal email address and account,” Rahmathullah told CNN. “Upon discovering this, we took immediate and decisive action to ensure that this type of incident will never happen again, including the immediate termination of the responsible employee.”

Arthur Grand, which is based in Ashburn, Va., and also lists office addresses in Canada and India, provides IT services to customers including the federal government, according to its website.

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