Nebraska Beef will pay a $200,000 penalty to settle a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into its hiring practices, reports the Omaha World-Herald. The U.S. Department of Justice stated that it had reason to believe the Nebraska processor had violated the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The department said in a statement that the settlement resolves an investigation by the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) into whether the company was engaging in employment discrimination in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). In particular, OSC investigated whether the company was requiring non-U.S. citizen employees, because of their citizenship status, to present proof of their immigration status for the employment eligibility verification process.