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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: EXTRA! EXTRA! Soldier actually fights for his country Stop the presses. Formerly of 101st Airborne Division, one Steven Heldt managed to notice that his country is being invaded and his race systematically being phased out by politicians. Instead of just chalking it up to "change" or looking for ways to celebrate diversity, he's fighting back. Or as Computer World puts it.... IT worker's lawsuit accuses Tata of discrimination An IT worker is accusing Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) of discriminating against American workers and favoring "South Asians" in hiring and promotion. It's backing up its complaint, in part, with numbers. The lawsuit, filed this week in federal court in San Francisco, claims that 95% of the 14,000 people Tata employs in the U.S. are South Asian or mostly Indian. It says this practice has created a "grossly disproportionate workforce." India-based Tata achieves its "discriminatory goals" in at least three ways, the lawsuit alleges. First, the company hires large numbers of H-1B workers. Over from 2011 to 2013, Tata sponsored nearly 21,000 new H-1B visas, all primarily Indian workers, according to the lawsuit's count. Second, when Tata hires locally, "such persons are still disproportionately South Asian," and, third, for the "relatively few non-South Asians workers that Tata hires," it disfavors them in placement, promotion and termination decisions. The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, is similar to a lawsuit filed last year against Infosys by the same Washington firm, Kotchen & Low LLP, in federal court in Wisconsin. Both cases have the potential of putting a new light on the operations of the H-1B-dependent offshore outsourcing industry and its use of visa workers. The lawsuit against Tata arrives at the same time that a bipartisan group of 10 U.S. Senators are seeking an investigation by federal authorities into the displacement of U.S. IT workers by H-1B-using companies...... Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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