OpenAI Pays $3.2M to Settle DOJ Claims It Steered PERM Jobs Away From U.S. Workers — Largest of 13 Such Settlements

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The Civil Rights Division announced on August 4 that OpenAI and subsidiary Statsig will pay $1.2M in civil penalties plus $2M in victim compensation over Immigration and Nationality Act violations in the Permanent Labor Certification process. Investigators alleged OpenAI omitted PERM roles from its careers site, required paper applications for those jobs while accepting electronic ones elsewhere, and ran some job radio ads late at night. OpenAI denied wrongdoing but agreed to policy revisions, training, and DOJ monitoring; this is the largest of 13 settlements under the re-launched Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative.