Tag: Discrimination
Walmart to pay $125 mn in disability discrimination case?
Marlo Spaeth, a Walmart employee with Down syndrome, was terminated after 16 years of service. Following this, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)...
5 women allege discrimination, retaliation by Amazon managers
Amazon is again making headlines for all the wrong reasons. This time, five women from the Company’s corporate offices and warehouses, have filed separate...
Location Bias: It matters which part of the town one comes...
A LinkedIn user who is a recruiter, mentioned an experience wherein she got to hear something shocking from her client. She reveals that the...
Former Indian employee of Apple alleges discrimination
A former Indian employee of Apple has accused the Company of discrimination and taken it to court. Anita Nariani Schulze, who was working as...
Employee complains, Facebook being probed for racial bias
A Black employee and two Black job applicants have accused Facebook of racial bias in terms of hiring and promotions. The US Equal Employment...
‘Amazon discriminates against Blacks’, alleges employee
Charlotee Newman, a 38-year old Black employed at Amazon atWeb Services has alleged discrimination against Blacks within the organisation. She accuses the Company of...
Unhappy with treatment of Black co-workers, 2 Googlers quit
Engineering director, David Baker, has worked for Google for 16 years, while Vinesh Kannan, was a software engineer. Both have chosen not to work...
Gay employee accuses Citigroup of discrimination
A gay employee of Citigroup, New York, has alleged that he had to face demotion and discrimination for having raised his voice against harassment.
The...
Adidas HR head accused of mishandling racism, quits
Karen Parkin, global HR head, Adidas, ended her over two-decade association with the German sportswear company, following complaints by Black employees that the Company’s...
Wipro accused of favouring South Asians & Indians in the US
Five former employees of Wipro in the US, have accused the Company of employment discrimination against people who are not of Indian origin or...
TCS employee approaches labour court for justice
An employee of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Chennai has alleged that she has been transferred within the organisation without being offered any reason...
Former Tesla employees allege racial discrimination
A few African-American and Hispanic former employees at Tesla's solar panels manufacturing factory in Buffalo, New York, have alleged that they were discriminated against...
Accused of racist culture at work, FB apologises to employees
Black employees of Facebook had revealed experiences of bias at the workplace, and inappropriate treatment by managers, colleagues and the human resources personnel. An...
It’s illegal to target digital ads/jobs, on the basis of gender,...
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ruled against seven companies that posted ads on Facebook, to publicise vacancies such that the ads...
Former American employee of Happiest Minds alleges discrimination against non-Indians
Former employee of Happiest Minds, Tami Sulzberg, has filed a lawsuit accusing the IT company of giving preference to South Asians while hiring, and...
Internal memo by Google employee alleges pregnancy discrimination
Google has once again been accused of discrimination and retaliation, and this time by a pregnant employee. The concerned employee sent a detailed internal...
Ex-employee of Goldman Sachs complains of discrimination
Former employee of Goldman Sachs has claimed that he had to face discrimination at work because he was gay.
William Littleton, who was amongst...
Employees’ e-mail chain reveals shocking cases of harassment at Microsoft
An internal e-mail chain has been doing the rounds at Microsoft detailing incidents of sexual harassment within the organisation. The e-mail that is more...
‘Zero drag hiring’: A common practice, but not a good one
‘Zero drag hiring’ is a discriminatory way of hiring people without any responsibilities, that is, unmarried and childless people with no family obligations. Whenever...
Oracle accused of discrimination
IT company, Oracle, has been accused by the US Department of Labour of paying lesser wages to Indian and African American employees as well...
Taco Bell employee fired for refusing hearing-impaired customer
Brandon Washburn, a deaf customer at the Taco Bell drive-through in Ohio was told by the employee of the outlet—while closing the drive-thru window—...
TCS cleared of anti-American bias charges in its hiring process
A California jury has finally cleared the charges leveled against the Indian multinational IT services provider, TCS, of discriminating against local American employees and...
Former American employee accuses Wipro of discrimination
Rex Trewin has demanded a jury trial following a series of issues that affected his employment and contributed to his termination.
Google sued yet again by another former employer
Lee, a woman software engineer, alleged that Google has a "bro-culture" that allowed her to be sexually harassed daily, and that the Company did nothing to intervene.
How personalised & curated digital learning is the recipe for successful...
Personalised and curated digital learning can help create time-efficient, relevant and targeted corporate training programmes.
In an evolving business landscape, learning and development (L&D) and...
Make mental health a part of your return-to-work plan
While people typically tend to resent change, the past year and a half has been fraught with changes and challenges, which were unavoidable. We...
Job seekers can stay in Germany for 6 months to hunt...
The job-seeker visa for the Country is a long-term residency permit, which allows applicants six months to hunt for a job, and grants them...
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Khatabook gives 10-day break to employees for mental health
Khatabook, the Indian fintech startup, is allowing its employees to take a ten-day Mental Health Break, from September 25 to October 3, 2021. In...
Unrest amongst Apple workforce?
Of late, many accounts of harassment, pay disparity, sexual and verbal abuse, retaliation and discrimination have come to the fore at Apple, along with...
Emeritus to hire 1,000+, launch of 500+ courses
Emeritus, the online learning platform that offers high-quality education to individuals, companies, and governments around the world, is all set to hire over 1,000...
Employee interaction significantly down: Microsoft remote-work study
A study on the communication habits of Microsoft employees pointed to the lack of inter-team communication in the work- from-home era. The survey that...
DIALOGUE
“If CEO is the father of an organisation, CHRO is the mother,” Pankaj Lochan
Q. You have been shuttling between HR and manufacturing roles. Was it a well-thought out strategy or did you just go with the flow...
Binding multi-faceted employees with Titan Values
Titan has different sets of employees for different functions and verticals, ranging from the shopfloor to the retail stores. How do you bring in...
The right people policy for startups – Madan Nagaldinne
You happen to have worked mostly with large organisations. How different is it working for a startup now?
When you have worked for big...
