Indian IT firm accused of discrimination against “stupid Americans”

[DainBramaged]

Infosys favored Asians in hiring, alleges suit seeking class action status.
by Jon Brodkin - Aug 5 2013, 6:00pm EDT


Infosys, an Indian IT software and services company with offices throughout the world, has been accused of discriminating against American job applicants. One Infosys employee who raised concerns about the company's hiring practices was repeatedly called a "stupid American," the lawsuit states.

Infosys has about 15,000 employees in the US "and approximately 90 percent of these employees are of South Asian descent (including individuals of Indian, Nepalese, and Bangladeshi descent)," the lawsuit states.

Infosys allegedly achieved this ratio "by directly discriminating against individuals who are not of South Asian decent in hiring, by abusing the H-1B visa process to bring workers of South Asian descent into the country rather than hiring qualified individuals already in the United States, and by abusing the B-1 visa system to bring workers of South Asian descent into the United States to perform work not allowed by their visa status rather than hiring individuals already in the United States to perform the work." Infosys "used B-1 visa holders because they could be paid considerably lower wages than other workers including American-born workers," the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday in US District Court in Eastern Wisconsin by Brenda Koehler, an IT professional. In April 2012, she applied for a job as “Lead VMware/Windows Administrator” at Infosys. Koehler now alleges several violations of the Civil Rights Act.

The suit claims Koehler got an interview, but Infosys officials incorrectly claimed she had no experience with Microsoft's Active Directory technology and ended up hiring a person from Bangladesh.

Koehler's suit attempts to establish a pattern of discrimination by citing the experiences of former Infosys employee Jay Palmer, described as a whistleblower who brought attention to the company's hiring practices.


http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/indian-it-firm-accused-of-discrimination-against-stupid-americans/

[ceonupe]

1. Hillary is not even running yet

Yeah I said that read up on infosys and the Clinton's

[DainBramaged]

2. (sigh) Is that the ONLY reason you're here, bash Hillary?

[niyad]

3. how about providing links from some credible sources? have looked through quite a bit of

information on this company and see nothing connecting it with Secretary Clinton

[markiv]

6. she is linked to a different indian outsourcer, TATA

Joining Tata Consultancy's chief executive at a downtown hotel, Clinton announced that the company would open a software development office in Buffalo and form a research partnership with a local university. Tata told a newspaper that it might hire as many as 200 people.

The 2003 announcement had clear benefits for the senator and the company: Tata received good press, and Clinton burnished her credentials as a champion for New York's depressed upstate region.

But less noticed was how the event signaled that Clinton, who portrays herself as a fighter for American workers, had aligned herself with Indian American business leaders and Indian companies feared by the labor movement.

Now, as Clinton runs for president, that signal is echoing loudly.

Clinton is successfully wooing wealthy Indian Americans, many of them business leaders with close ties to their native country and an interest in protecting outsourcing laws and expanding access to worker visas. Her campaign has held three fundraisers in the Indian American community recently, one of which raised close to $3 million, its sponsor told an Indian news organization.

But in Buffalo, the fruits of the Tata deal have been hard to find. The company, which called the arrangement Clinton's "brainchild," says "about 10" employees work here. Tata says most of the new employees were hired from around Buffalo. It declines to say whether any of the new jobs are held by foreigners, who make up 90% of Tata's 10,000-employee workforce in the United States.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/30/nation/na-buffalo30

[DainBramaged]

5. You have NOTHING

[Mr. David]

4. That's the main reason I'm getting out of IT. Starting a new project

and kicking doors right now...

H-1B is a huge scam and has been widely abused.

I still get job posting from Indian sounding morons who don't bother to read my resume when i'm a match.

They'd rather stick with their own subculture.

I'm starting a frozen yogurt business within the next few months... just trying to figure all of this out when I've got bad credit from credit card loans and are currently in "debt settlement"...

So baby steps for me...