Tag: Discrimination
SBI’s revision of hiring norms misinterpreted as discrimination against women
State Bank of India (SBI) ran into a bit of controversy recently, when a revised set of medical guidelines for hiring was misinterpreted as...
‘Disciplinary action at work against mentally ill employee is discrimination’: SC
The Supreme Court has said that disciplinary action taken at the workplace against employees with mental disabilities is an act of indirect discrimination. The...
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.
Why a coaching culture and not any other culture?
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,”...
27 years of perfect attendance for what?
After 27 years of hard work and perfect attendance, an employee looks forward to being rewarded for his service. While Kevin Ford, an employee...
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Amazon’s robots to make work safer and easier for its employees
Amazon’s robots to make work safer and easier for its employees
Proteus and Cardinal are two robots that are taking over some of the manual...
27 years of perfect attendance for what?
After 27 years of hard work and perfect attendance, an employee looks forward to being rewarded for his service. While Kevin Ford, an employee...
DCW orders Indian Bank to withdraw pregnant women rule
After receiving much flak for its new hiring guidelines that called pregnant women ‘medically unfit’ for recruitment, Indian Bank has now received a notice...
Tesla sued by former staff for mass layoff without 60-day notice
When Tesla decided to lay off about 500 workers at its Nevada Gigafactory, little did it know that the move will actually cause two...
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“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...
Q. How would you define the culture at GE?
A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....
“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton
Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...
“A CEO needs to acknowledge the silent majority who create the company’s fortunes” S...
Q. RPG is a diversified group with businesses spread across sectors and domains. however, its brands have a strong individual identity unlike other business...
