美国司法部认为拉斯维加斯赌场歧视非美籍居民

　　美国司法部正对拉斯维加斯托斯卡纳酒店赌场提出诉讼，指控其在超过五年的时间里区别对待非美籍求职者和雇员。

　　华盛顿特区的司法部人权司，上周在首席行政听证官办公室宣布他们于5月29日对酒店赌城和其提供服务的公司提出诉讼代理。

　　托斯卡纳酒店赌场被要求进行辩解。

　　指控称该酒店赌场在就业资格验证和重新验证方面的规章制度和实际操作方面存在不公平现象。

　　指控称托斯卡纳酒店赌场对非美籍居民在就业资格验证和重新验证程序中，要求他们个提供比正常要求更多的或是不同的文件或信息。

　　托斯卡纳酒店赌场根据公民身份地位要求享有永久居住权的人进行不必要的重新验证程序，他们是一些持有永久居住卡（绿卡）的工作者。

　　官方表示，联邦移民与国籍法规定，雇员在受聘解聘和就业资格验证等方面享有相同待遇，不论其国籍或公民身份地位是否不同。

　　人权司的综合助理托马斯。佩雷斯在就此指控发表的声明中说“我们的部门一直致力于反对违反联邦移民与国籍法的不平等待遇，享有正当权利的工作者应该在工作场所享有公平待遇”。

　　指控称托斯卡纳在2011年初因一次未经确认的“充电聚会”被投诉存在民权歧视，同年10月份司法部特别法律顾问通知托斯卡纳“这是对可能在制度和实践中歧视对待非美籍居民进行的扩大调查”。

　　指控称“早在2006年1月份到2011年10月份，被告（托斯卡纳）在就业资格验证和重新验证有意对不同公民身份地位的雇员予以不同待遇”。

　　指控要求托斯卡纳缴纳数目未定的罚款，并且“足额补偿享有正当权利的非美籍雇员所遭受的损失，包括拖欠的薪水和按照统一标准应该补偿的部分”。

　　译文：

　　The U.S. Justice Department is suing the Tuscany Suites & Casino in Las Vegas over allegations the property discriminated against non-U.S. citizen job applicants and employees over a five-year period.

　　The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C., last week announced it filed a lawsuit against the hotel-casino in the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer of the agency and served the company on May 29.

　　A request for comment was placed with the Tuscany.

　　The suit alleges the property engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination in the employment eligibility verification and reverification process.

　　The complaint alleges:

　　? Tuscany treated non-citizens differently from U.S. citizens during the employment eligibility verification and reverification process by requesting non-citizen employees provide more or different documents or information than was required.

　　? Tuscany subjected lawful permanent residents to unnecessary reverification procedures based on their citizenship status. These are workers with Permanent Resident Cards （green cards）。

　　The federal Immigration and Nationality Act （INA） requires employers to treat all authorized workers equally during the hiring, firing and employment eligibility verification process, regardless of their national origin or citizenship status, the government said.

　　“The department vigorously enforces the anti-discrimination provisions of the INA so that authorized workers are treated fairly in the work place,” Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

　　The suit says the Tuscany had been hit with a discrimination complaint in early 2011 by an unidentified “charging party,” and that in October the Justice Department’s Office of Special Counsel notified the Tuscany “it was expanding the investigation to include a possible pattern or practice of document abuse against non-U.S. citizens.”

　　“From at least January 2006 to at least October 2011, respondent （Tuscany） knowingly treated individuals differently in the employment verification and re-verification process on account of their citizenship status,” the lawsuit says.

　　The suit seeks an unspecified fine and “full remedial relief to work-authorized non-U.S. citizen employees for the losses they have suffered, including back pay and reinstatement.”