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EEOC Issues New Guidance on National Origin Discrimination

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On November 19, 2025, the EEOC released new guidance affirming EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas’s commitment in advancing robust enforcement and awareness around national origin discrimination and anti-American bias.  The EEOC announced in a press release that many employers have policies and practices preferring illegal aliens, migrant workers, or non-immigrant guest workers over American workers, in violation of federal employment law.  Lucas said:  “Nothing justifies illegal national origin discrimination - whether rooted in cost of labor, customer preferences, or stereotypes.”  The document defines national origin discrimination as: “Treating employees or applicants unfavorably or favorably because they are from a particular country or part of the world, because of ethnicity or accent, or because they appear to be of a certain ethnic background.”  She gives examples of using discriminatory job advertisements, or holding U.S. workers to stricter application processes than foreign workers.  

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