The United States Department of Justice hit a North Carolina landscaping business with penalties after it ruled the local company was hiring foreign workers while discriminating against Americans.
The Department of Justice, under the direction of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, announced June 26 that it reached a settlement with Triple H Services LLC, located at 404 Linville Street in Newland, North Carolina, after the business was accused of hiring foreign workers imported to the United States on the H-2B visa program rather than hiring American citizens who were available to take its jobs.
In the settlement, Triple H Services LLC agreed to establish a back pay fund capped at $85,000 to compensate those affected by its practices, pay $15,600 in civil penalties, recruit U.S. workers and be subjected to monitoring by the U.S. Department of Justice for three years.
Following a Department of Justice investigation—led by the Civil Rights Division’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative—the agency ruled that Triple H misled American workers in job advertisements for more than 450 landscaping jobs in a manner that was designed to keep or discourage Americans from applying for the positions.
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