Infosys, the Indian IT company was sued in the US for practicing discrimination against the US citizens by employing South Asians disproportionately in the US.
This is bound to affect outsourcing as there are checks for outsourcing against Indian Companies in the US and there is federal Bill pending.
Whether the US likes it or not, Indian IT companies perform better and the South Asians, especially from Andhra Pradesh are doing well,
Telugu speaking Indians are reported to form about 65 % of IT Industry.
I am informed by my Grand son in Sweden that in Sweden Telugu speaking IT people are quite high.
In Business it is quality and economics that counts, not Nationality.
Otherwise the Out Sourcing Phenomena would not have happened.
Story:
A Wisconsin IT professional has filed a lawsuit against Indian outsourcing firm Infosys alleging that the company discriminates against U.S. job applicants in favor of South Asians for jobs in the U.S.
Brenda Koehler, an IT worker with 17 years of experience, alleges that Infosys ignored her qualifications and eventually hired a Bangladeshi worker to staff a position she was qualified for. Koehler and her lawyers are asking the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to allow a class-action lawsuit against Infosys, with “thousands” of potential plaintiffs in the case, according to the lawsuit, filed Thursday.
“Infosys has engaged in a systemic pattern and practice of discriminating against individuals who are not of South Asian descent in hiring,” Koehler’s lawyers wrote in court documents.
A representative of Infosys said the company categorically denies the allegations. “We’re an equal-opportunity employer,” she said.
Koehler, a VMware-certified professional network engineer with a master’s degree in information systems, was denied a lead VMware/Windows administrator position at Infosys, the lawsuit alleges.
“Ms. Koehler’s experience is not unique,” Donna Conroy, director of Bright Future Jobs, a group advocating for U.S. tech workers, said in an email. “High-tech companies claim they can’t find Americans to fill U.S jobs, when, in fact, they are rejecting talented Americans — as this lawsuit reveals.”
The lawsuit, citing comments from former Infosys employees, alleges that more than 90 percent of the company’s 15,000 U.S. employees are foreign workers, with most of them from South Asia. The company is using H-1B visas to hire foreign workers “to performA jobs for which there are qualified American workers available,” the lawsuit said.
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