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Cloudera barred from PERM program two years, pays $1.4m back pay over US-worker bias

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2:01 · DOJ Criminal Division · 16 Oct 2026

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the Department of Labor announced a coordinated resolution with Cloudera Inc. over alleged discrimination against qualified US workers during PERM recruitment. The settlement pairs a two-year debarment from the labor certification program with a back-pay fund, civil penalties and ongoing compliance obligations. For any employer running PERM sponsorship, this item signals how the two agencies are now working the same case in tandem.

  • Cloudera will be barred from participating in the PERM program for two years, following DOL's earlier suspension of its PERM processing.
  • The company will establish a $1.4 million back-pay fund for qualified US workers who tried to apply for the jobs at issue but were not given fair consideration.
  • Cloudera will pay $600,000 in civil penalties and resolves a DOJ lawsuit filed in April alleging INA violations across seven PERM positions.
  • Cloudera accepts compliance obligations including enhanced monitoring, revised PERM procedures and reporting requirements.
  • DOJ said this is the fourteenth settlement since it relaunched its Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative in 2025.

Executive summary

The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and the Department of Labor announced a coordinated enforcement resolution with Cloudera Inc., a Santa Clara, California-based data management company, over allegations that it discriminated against qualified US workers during recruitment conducted…

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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-departments-justice-and-labor-secure-settlement-cloudera-enforce-two-year-perm-debarment
Published by DOJ Criminal Division · 16 Oct 2026
Read by Regulus 16 Oct 2026 at 19:43 UTC
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