Posted on 10/12/2019 2:23:16 PM PDT by NobleFree
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd. an Indian provider of information technology services, discriminates against people who aren’t South Asian when hiring workers at its U.S. facilities, according to a lawsuit filed by two former employees.
The ex-employees, both white Americans, allege that the Mumbai-based company’s U.S. workforce of 7,500 is 95% of South Asian decent and is mostly made up of visa holders from India.
The complaint filed Wednesday in New York is one of several similar cases accusing India’s big IT firms of hiring bias in the U.S. The first to go to trial ended last year in a victory for Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., which was cleared by a California jury of discrimination claims.
Larsen & Toubro is accused of submitting fraudulent letters with visa applications to maximize the number of South Asians it hires in the U.S. The suit describes how the company would send a letter to the U.S. government, supposedly from a client, attesting to the need for certain employees to work in America. But the letters were drafted and signed by Larsen & Toubro, according to the complaint.
Larsen & Toubro is now under investigation by U.S. Customs and Immigration Services for the practices, according to the suit, which is seeking class-action status. In one example cited in the complaint, Larsen & Toubro allegedly submitted fake invitation letters purportedly signed by client Apple Inc. [...]
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The rest of the planet can and does discriminate about many and any things. It is pretty much only in the USA that there are protected classes of people. Unfortunate for this company that they are operating here now. They will be sued and they will lose.
When you bring foreigners in, they will want change the country to the sh!thole where they came from. For Indians, it’s nepotism and caste and attitudes of superiority. H1B is a fraud upon the professionals of this country by the owners and ruling class.
The politicians, unbelievably, want to expand it, thus gutting the wages of the IT and engineering professionals. Mike Lee, I’m looking at you.
I hadn't thought about it, but yes, you have nailed it.
Like other immigration issues, wall, daca etc.
Trump has failed miserably on h1b scam also.
Screw america rats want votes and rinos/IT companies want cheap labor.
Indians have already fcked-up King County in Seattle. They think the own the place. And they are not clean people, at least to western standards.
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