The Justice Department announced that a settlement has been reach regarding allegations that Catholic Healthcare West, (CHW), the eighth largest hospital provider in the country, engaged in “citizenship status discrimination” throughout their employment processes. CHW was found to have required non-US citizens and naturalized citizens to present more work authorization documents than required, while not imposing the same standard to US citizens.

The civil penalties amounted to more than $257,000, the largest amount ever paid to resolve such allegations. For the full article Click Here.