The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a national origin discrimination lawsuit against Sibitalent Corp., a Plano-based employment agency that recruits workers for information technology companies.
The suit, EEOC v. Sibitalent Corp., Case No. 3:26-cv-11106, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and the agency announced it Sept. 30.
What the EEOC alleges
According to the agency, a Sibitalent recruiter emailed an American database developer in July 2025 about a business data analyst opening in Mountain View, California. The email carried the words "ONLY H-1B" in large, highlighted type near the top, the complaint says.
When the developer asked whether that requirement was legal, the EEOC says, the recruiter answered that it was. The developer then asked to be shown where that was legal, and the agency says the company stopped responding and never referred him. Sibitalent instead referred two candidates of Indian and Nepali origin for the same position, the suit alleges.
The EEOC says the conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employment agencies, as well as employers, from discriminating based on national origin. The agency said it tried to resolve the matter through its pre-lawsuit conciliation process before going to court.
The Dallas Morning News reported that the complaint also describes internal training material focused on U.S. work-visa categories and screening of H-1B candidates.
"Employers and employment agencies cannot shut qualified Americans out of job opportunities by using unjustified visa requirements," EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas said in the agency's announcement.
