Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which has its headquarters in Mumbai, has been charged with using unlawful employment procedures in the US. A class action lawsuit accusing the corporation of favoring South Asian and Indian candidates is currently going on in the US.
Former TCS employee Shawn Katz, who worked there for nine years, is suing the company for discrimination. The US District Court of New Jersey will hear the class action complaint.
Katz has claimed that TCS is prejudiced in favor of Indian or South Asian people when considering hiring candidates, according to the Economic Times.
“As per policy, we can’t comment on sub-judice matters,” TCS was quoted as saying by Economic Times.
A class action lawsuit is a specific kind of litigation in which one of the parties is a group of individuals who are collectively represented by one or more members of that group for having experienced a loss that is similar to their own.
What is TCS charged with?
The charge against TCS is that company “knowingly and actively created and maintained an extremely disproportionate workforce in the United States that is composed of about 70% South Asian employees.”
In Katz’s complaint, TCS is accused of using discriminatory hiring, staffing, promotion, and termination policies and practices that have a disproportionately negative impact on non-South Asian and non-Indian applicants and employees who are consequently disproportionately passed over for jobs, not selected for positions, not promoted, benched, and/or terminated.
“These practices are neither job-related for the positions at issue nor consistent with business necessity.”
According to Katz, TCS maintains its human resource acquisition techniques in a way that favors and attracts Indian candidates. He further said that TCS gives visa holders better prospects for professional advancement than non-Indian and non-South Asian candidates.
In a separate case brought by three of its former workers in California district court earlier in 2018, TCS prevailed.
In order to resolve a lawsuit alleging that the tech giant has discriminated against women in wages and promotions, Google agreed to pay $118 million in June 2022.
