A former head of immigration in the US, at Infosys, has filed a lawsuit against the IT major accusing it of “discrimination” against non-South Asian employees, and demanded a trial by jury. Erin Green has filed a suit with a US district Court in the Eastern District of Texas on June 19, naming two senior company officials - Head of Global Immigration Vasudeva Nayak and Executive Vice President and Global Head of Talent and Technology, Binod Hampapur, making serious charges against them.
His counsel, Kilgore and Kilgore, PLLC said, “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. Is termination was in violation of defendant's policy which requires progressive warnings or placement on a performance improvement plan prior to termination.”
He added, “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 comes right after Infosys announced that it will hire 10,000 Americans in the next two years and open four centres in the US in a bid to woo the Trump administration, which has been openly critical of outsourcing firms for unfairly snatching away jobs from US workers. Company co-founder Mohandas Pai said, “The filing of lawsuit by Green against Infosys alleging employee discrimination will not have any bearings on the company's intent to hire 10,000 Americans in the next two years. It will not affect the recruitment because it is very difficult to hire 10,000 people in two years. It's a tall target, and one quarter is nearly over. These are statements that one can make to please politicians.”
He added, “Since Infosys is not an American company, it is very easy to level charges of discrimination and nobody wants to go for trial.”
