Avoiding Unlawful Immigration-Related Employment Discrimination

SHRM Global Mobility and Immigration Symposium
This session will provide an overview of employer obligations under the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act and will use recent cases to illustrate how employers can avoid committing unlawful employment discrimination based on citizenship status or national origin.

Discrimination based on citizenship, immigration status or national origin in hiring, firing and/or recruiting is prohibited under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which is enforced by the Civil Rights Division’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section. Learn employer obligations under INA’s anti-discrimination provision and how to avoid committing unlawful employment discrimination.

Date(s) & Time(s): 
Monday, November 4, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Presenter: 

Alberto Ruisanchez

Alberto
Ruisanchez

Alberto Ruisanchez is the Chief of the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.  IER enforces a law that prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of citizenship and national origin, educates the public about the law, and engages in policy work to advance the office’s mission.  For two years, he served as an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General overseeing several of the Sections in the Civil Rights Division, including the Employment Litigation Section and the Disability Rights Section.  Prior to serving as IER’s Chief, Mr. Ruisanchez served as a Deputy Chief in the Disability Rights Section and a trial attorney in the Voting Section and Housing & Civil Enforcement Section.  Mr. Ruisanchez clerked for the Honorable Juan Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and he graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. 

Location: 
Meeting Room 4
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Intended Audience: 
All Levels
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