Case Over Staffing Company’s Citizen-Only Mandate Goes Forward

A staffing company must continue to defend against Justice Department allegations that it unlawfully refused to hire noncitizens and dual citizens for a document review project at a Washington, D.C.-based law firm.

Chancery Staffing Solutions, which does business as TransPerfect Staffing Solutions, said it relied on the firm’s insistence that project involving the International Trafficking in Arms Regulation required only U.S. citizen workers—and not dual citizens.

The law firm was incorrect, but the staffing company’s reliance wasn’t enough to get the DOJ’s case dismissed from the agency’s Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer. The DOJ’s Immigration and Employee Rights ...