Microsoft settles California probe over worker leave for $14 millionMicrosoft agrees to pay $14 million to settle claims of retaliating against workers for taking leave in California. The settlement also man...
04 Jul, 2024, 07.04 AM IST
Google, Apple breakups on the agenda as global regulators target techAntitrust regulators target Big Tech like Apple and Google, considering break-up orders due to alleged anti-competitive practices. Companie...
24 Mar, 2024, 08.02 AM IST
TCS faces hiring bias lawsuit in US; BJP MLA asks Centre to ban online gambling adsIn 2018, a California district court ruled in favour of TCS in a lawsuit filed by three former employees who accused the IT services provid...
12 Dec, 2022, 07.10 PM IST
Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchyThe dispute - the first U.S. employment lawsuit about alleged casteism - has forced Big Tech to confront a millennia-old hierarchy where In...
16 Aug, 2022, 04.02 PM IST
Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchyApple confirmed that it "updated language a couple of years ago to reinforce that we prohibit discrimination or harassment based on caste."
15 Aug, 2022, 01.38 PM IST
LinkedIn will give $1.8 mn to female workers to settle pay discrimination complaintThe settlement affects nearly 700 women who worked in engineering, product or marketing roles.
04 May, 2022, 08.24 AM IST
Microsoft board to review sexual harassment, discrimination policiesThe review will produce a transparency report with results of any sexual harassment investigations in recent years against the company's di...
14 Jan, 2022, 10.45 AM IST
Microsoft settles immigration related claims with US Justice DepartmentMicrosoft has been asked to pay a civil fine of $17,352 to the US treasury and amend its recruitment practices.
08 Dec, 2021, 11.38 AM IST
Microsoft had warned Bill Gates about sending 'flirtatious emails' to female employee in 2008The matter was dropped after Gates told them he would stop.
19 Oct, 2021, 01.00 PM IST
Microsoft says it warned Bill Gates about flirting in 2008Brad Smith, then Microsoft's general counsel and now its president and vice chair, and another executive met with Bill Gates after the comp...
19 Oct, 2021, 10.15 AM IST
Bill Gates's leadership roles and reputation stay intact despite disturbing allegationsHowever, critics say the revelations raise accountability concerns.
19 May, 2021, 10.30 AM IST
Satya Nadella, US lawmakers appalled by the ongoing acts of hate against Asian AmericansMore than 3,000 incidents of abuse against Asian Americans were reported between March and December 2020, according to Asian American advoc...
13 Mar, 2021, 11.52 AM IST
Flexi-hours in India, Denmark's 52-week paid absence: Look at parental leave policies across the worldThe US, Suriname and Papua New Guinea don’t have paid leave for new parents.
22 Jan, 2020, 05.24 PM IST
Satya Nadella calls for building AI responsibly, especially in facial recognition techMicrosoft is one of several companies playing a leading role in developing facial recognition tech.
07 Dec, 2018, 03.06 PM IST
- Microsoft's European Union antitrust probe nears end
Microsoft Corp’s decade-long struggle against a EU antitrust probe that led to more than $2.1 billion in fines will enter its final phase o...
27 Jun, 2012, 10.58 AM IST
- India outsourcers angered by US job visa hike
The row comes as India readies to host Obama and as anti-outsourcing anger in US has been stoked by high unemployment.
14 Aug, 2010, 06.04 PM IST
'Quotas alone will not help women climb biz ladder'Microsoft India MD Neelam Dhawan shared her views on the glass ceiling for women and affirmative action in an interview with ET.
06 Mar, 2008, 08.42 AM IST