Despite Donald Trump order, abandoning DEI could land companies in legal troubleU.S. companies reducing workplace diversity efforts due to Trump's directive may face increased discrimination lawsuits, as such policies h...
24 Jan, 2025, 09.46 PM IST
Apple accused of silencing workers, spying on personal devicesApple faces a lawsuit accusing it of illegally monitoring employees' personal devices and iCloud accounts while restricting discussions abo...
02 Dec, 2024, 11.57 PM IST
Cognizant discriminated against non-Indian workers to prefer H-1B holders, US jury saysA US jury found Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. guilty of discriminatory practices against non-Indian workers, recommending punitive d...
08 Oct, 2024, 10.22 AM IST
Meta must face lawsuit claiming it prefers foreign workers over US citizensThe legal landscape shifted with the Section 1981 ruling impacting tech giants like Meta Platforms and Apple. Cases against biased hiring p...
28 Jun, 2024, 07.29 AM IST
Apple accused in lawsuit of underpaying female workers in CaliforniaApple faces a class action lawsuit in California for allegedly underpaying over 12,000 female employees. The lawsuit claims Apple pays wome...
13 Jun, 2024, 11.29 PM IST
Biased bots? US lawmakers take on 'Wild West' of AI recruitmentDerek Mobley, a Black man with a finance degree, has filed a class action lawsuit against human resources platform Workday Inc, alleging th...
20 Oct, 2023, 07.23 PM IST
Biased bots? US lawmakers take on 'Wild West' of AI recruitmentThe question of what "responsible AI" might look like goes to the heart of an increasingly robust push-back against the unrestricted use of...
19 Oct, 2023, 11.43 AM IST
SpaceX lawsuit could be key test of US policy on bias against refugeesA new lawsuit accusing SpaceX of illegally refusing to hire asylum recipients and refugees could be an important test of the U.S. governmen...
26 Aug, 2023, 11.23 PM IST
Tutoring firm settles US agency's first bias lawsuit involving AI softwareThe commission, which enforces workplace bias laws, in 2021 launched an initiative to ensure that AI software used by U.S. employers compli...
11 Aug, 2023, 09.37 AM IST
Twitter asks judge to toss out proposed sex bias class actionTwitter said the December lawsuit fails to allege that company managers who decided which workers would lose their jobs used discriminatory...
27 Jan, 2023, 08.59 PM IST
Elon Musk says he can't get fair trial in California, wants TexasIf a move isn't possible, Musk's lawyers want the trial postponed until negative publicity regarding Musk's purchase of Twitter has died do...
08 Jan, 2023, 04.15 PM IST
Google accused of systemic racial bias in lawsuitAccording to a complaint seeking class-action status, Google maintains a "racially biased corporate culture" that favours white men, where ...
19 Mar, 2022, 10.26 PM IST
It’s Cognizant’s turn to face US lawsuit alleging discriminationUS staffer alleges discrimination in the way assignments are handed out.
07 Mar, 2019, 08.38 AM IST
Why is TCS being pulled up for firing Americans? Here's the storyA suit was filed in 2015 by a white IT worker who claimed he was subject to “anti-American sentiment”.
10 Nov, 2018, 03.15 PM IST
Cognizant, number one H-1B visa sponsor, battles anti-white bias lawsuitThree former employees claim they were forced out and replaced with 'less qualified' South Asians after being poorly treated by their India...
19 Mar, 2018, 04.48 PM IST
TCS faces US trial in anti-American bias caseIn April, Trump signed an executive order aimed at overhauling the work-visa programs companies use to bring overseas workers to the U.S.
28 Dec, 2017, 02.18 PM IST
Lawsuits like Ellen Pao's, no matter the result, encourage other claimsCases against Twitter and Facebook filed in California state court during Pao’s trial may indicate the thin end of the wedge.
30 Mar, 2015, 02.50 AM IST