{
  "id": 144107,
  "title": "OpenAI pays $3.2 million in US probe over hiring foreign workers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/openai-pays-3-2-million-in-us-probe-over-hiring-foreign-workers-144107",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-04T19:14:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/openai-pays-3-2-million-in-us-probe-over-hiring-foreign-workers/articleshow/132871511.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "OpenAI and its subsidiary, Statsig, have agreed to pay a combined $3.2 million to settle a US government investigation into allegations of favoring foreign workers over American applicants for temporary employment visas. According to the US Justice Department, the tech companies engaged in discriminatory recruitment practices, such as discouraging US workers from applying and advertising jobs in a manner that disadvantaged American job seekers. The settlement includes $1.2 million in penalties and $2 million in compensation for victims of discrimination. OpenAI denied any wrongdoing in the settlement agreement and committed to revising its employment policies, conducting training, and being subject to ongoing monitoring by the Justice Department. This is not the first such settlement involving alleged discrimination against US workers by tech companies; since last year, the Justice Department has announced at least a dozen similar cases.",
  "summary": "The Justice Department in a release said that OpenAI and Statsig, which makes product development software, recruited foreign workers for some open positions and took various steps to discourage US workers from applying. That included requiring them to mail paper applications instead of submitting electronic ones, advertising jobs on the radio late at night, and not posting the openings on an…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "OpenAI pays $3.2 million in US probe over hiring foreign workers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/openai-pays-3-2-million-in-us-probe-over-hiring-foreign-workers",
        "published": "2026-08-04T19:16:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Business",
        "title": "OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle claims it discriminated against US workers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/openai-pays-3-2m-to-settle-claims-it-discriminated-against-us-workers",
        "published": "2026-08-05T00:47:35.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Tech in Asia",
        "title": "OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle US hiring probe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/openai-pays-3-2m-to-settle-us-hiring-probe",
        "published": "2026-08-05T04:37:24.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}