White ex-employee claims company favored workers from India

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Infosys, the India-based information technology consulting firm with an office in Plano, is facing yet another reverse discrimination lawsuit asserting that it creates a hostile work environment for workers who are not from India or South Asia. 

 

Erin Green, a former supervisor at Infosys, filed suit this week in the Eastern District of Texas in Sherman, alleging that he and black and white staffers on his team were denied raises and promotions, and that other "non-South Asian" workers were berated by South Asian company officials. 

 

Green, of Frisco, is white and rose to the rank of "head of global immigration" while working in the company's Plano office. He was terminated in June of 2016, ostensibly for violating Infosys' "code of conduct by using his work computer for personal use a number of years earlier."

 

The race-based discrimination lawsuit by a former American employee comes just weeks after Infosys -- India's second-largest technology services company -- announced plans to hire 10,000 American workers at a time when President Donald Trump has been pushing an "America First" policy.

 

An Infosys spokeswoman said the company is "not in a position to comment on ongoing litigation." 

 

Green's attorney said he did not have time to answer questions.

 

In filing suit, Green joined a list of Infosys job applicants and employees who have filed suit in courts in several U.S. jurisdictions arguing reverse discrimination. 

 

"Infosys maintains roughly 200,000 employees working in the United States," Green's suit said. While less than 5 percent of the U. S. population is of the South Asian race and national origin, roughly 93 percent to 94 percent of Infosys's United States workforce "is of the South Asian national origin, (primarily Indian)." 

 

"This disproportionately South Asian and Indian workforce, by race and national origin, is a result of Infosys's intentional employment discrimination against individuals who are not South Asian, including discrimination in the hiring, promotion, compensation and termination of individuals," the suit said. 

 

"Infosys has gone to great lengths to obtain its primarily South Asian workforce in the U. S., in particular by utilizing professional H-1B and L-1 work visas to bring South Asians (primarily Indians) into the United States to work in information technology ("IT") consulting roles," according to the suit. 

 

Data from a previous suit, referenced in Green's suit, "illustrates the overwhelming dis-proportionate percentage of non-Asians being involuntarily terminated and not given promotions," the suit said. 

 

Green's 22-page suit outlines the career path of an employee who rose rapidly while working for a white supervisor, and whose career tanked after he was assigned to a supervisor who was of "the South Asian race and Indian national origin." 

 

After the switch, Green "was subjected to discriminatory measures of increasing severity designed to undermine both his position and his professional credibility within" the company.

 

The new supervisor "promptly began stripping [Green] of his immigration 'operations' responsibilities and transitioning or maintaining these roles with less experienced, lower level South Asian employees in India," the suit said. 

 

A suit seeking class-action status, making similar allegations, was filed in Wisconsin. A job discrimination suit was filed in 2014 in the Pennsylvania Eastern District Court.

 

In 2013 the company announced a $34 million settlement to end a federal investigation into allegations that it circumvented immigration laws to bring thousands of lower-paid workers into the United States.

 

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[steven36]

I have no problem with training  workers from other countries  as that was what i use too do , The problem is the companies take advantage  of unskilled immigrants  and they do not get paid the same. Thing is so many jobs have moved overseas now and lot the immigrants left when the jobs did. I never had a problem finding a job because of this because i'm a skilled worker who can train unskilled workers. but once they started moving the jobs out of the USA  it became a problem and many people having to leave there homes and go too places that still have jobs. 200,000 workers are not very many as a whole the Mexicans has been token advantage of  far more than anyone else in the USA  because they sneak across the border and will work for peanuts. The USA  have about 125.91 million workers companies like Dell when the USA try too give them trouble with under paid people they just move the phone tech support out of the USA. 

 

The thing is if they would bring the jobs back from overseas they would be enough jobs for everyone instead trying pass laws on the ones that are left and undermining  the problem  that millions of jobs went overseas. The USA  hires over 14 million workers overseas and there are 7.5 million unemployed Americans meaning if they brought back half everyone would have a job  .. If they brought them all back then part time workers could have full time jobs.
 

https://www.thebalance.com/how-outsourcing-jobs-affects-the-u-s-economy-3306279

Those 200,000 workers or lucky to even have a job at all with 7.5 million unemployed workers you know how easy it is for you too be replaced?

[straycat19]

My daughter took a job with State Farm Insurance that they were advertising as Customer Service Reps to assist people with insurance claims, etc and they would only take college graduates into the program.  First thing she found out was State Farm is 99% foreigners, mainly from India, on work visas, and secondly the trainees were required to take a state insurance certification test.  Come to find out they really wanted these 'customer service reps' to sell insurance (telemarketing).  Something their Indian employees couldn't do because no one wanted to talk to them.  After 3 weeks she, and others,  quit the program and she now happily works in the treasury department of a large bank.

[steven36]

My nephew  went too collage to be a tech that work on PCs  and he was lucky he took business as well and he is a manger in a business now . Competition is so fierce in computer science he could not land a job for what he went too school all those years for , he could of took a lot less classes and do what he does now. Also I have others in my family who took certain things in Collage  and ended up having too do something else . Only jobs to do with medical is a surefire thing if you take this in Collage then you may not like it and end up doing something else.

 

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In 2016, the employment rate was higher for those with higher levels of educational attainment. For example, the employment rate was highest for young adults with a bachelor’s or higher degree (88 percent). The employment rate for young adults with some college¹ (77 percent) was higher than the rate for those who had completed high school² (69 percent), which was, in turn, higher than the employment rate for those who had not finished high school (48 percent). This pattern of a positive relationship between employment rates and educational attainment was also seen for 25- to 64-year-olds (also referred to as “older adults” in this Fast Fact).

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=561

But what they dont tell you only is  like only 27 percent of college grads have a job related to their major and  it only goes up a few points  if you move too a big city  it's just moving too a big city you're more likely find some kind of work and most likely not what you went too school for.

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