On Wednesday, a former immigration head of Infosys filed a lawsuit against the company. He accused the company of showing discrimination against the non-South Asian employees. For this, he demanded a trial by jury.
This law suit was filed by Erin Green on June 19 in the US District Court in the Eastern District of Texas. He named two senior officials, Vasudeva Nayak, Head of Global Immigration and Binod Hampapur, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Talent and Technology. Green quit the company in 2016 and reported to Nayak before that.
Kilgore & Kilgore, PLLC, counsel of Green said that “Plaintiff was terminated because of Defendant’s obsessional preference for employees of South Asian race and national origin, usually Indian, and as retaliation for reporting Nayak and Hampapur’s discriminatory treatment of himself and others on the basis of race and national origin.” He said that “His termination was in violation of Defendant’s policy which requires progressive warnings or placement on a performance improvement plan prior to termination.”
The 53-page lawsuit said that “Plaintiff received no such warnings, and had no discussions with employee relations regarding any of the conduct related to the stated reason for his termination prior to his termination. Plaintiff had no disciplinary entries on his official work record during his four-and-a-half-year tenure.”
The lawsuit also pointed that from October 2011 to June 28, 2016, the plaintiff was employed by the Defendant in Plano, Texas and his experience with Infosys demonstrates the “discriminatory nature of Infosys’s employment practices.”
The company in a response to the lawsuit said that “Infosys does not comment on ongoing litigation.”
This lawsuit came amidst the announcement of Infosys to hire 10,000 American employees in the next two years. In a bid to woo the US President Donald Trump, the also announced the opening of four centers.
