Tag: Lawsuit
TCS accused of discrimination by former employee
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons now. A former employee of the IT firm in the US, Shawn...
Apple policy allows staff to speak up about harassment, discrimination, working...
In an attempt to make the workplace safer and friendlier, Apple has reviewed its non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Following this, the tech major has acknowledged...
Two women sue Musk’s Twitter for discriminatory layoffs
Pointing out the abrupt and disproportionate mass layoff, two women who lost their jobs after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, are suing the social-media...
Ex-employee files gender discrimination lawsuit against Sony Playstation
An ex-employee of Sony Playstation has charged her former employer with a gender discrimination lawsuit and wrongful termination. Emma Majo, who worked as an...
Tesla faces racism lawsuit, to shell out $137 mn
Owen Diaz, a former Black contract elevator operator at Tesla, sued the Company saying he was discriminated against for being Black and even asked...
Google accused of underpaying women, may have to pay $600 mn...
Google is now facing a gender-pay lawsuit which was given class-action status by a San Francisco state judge. That means, the four main petitioners...
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...
$2.6 mn in back pay, $3.8 mn in settlement by Google
A compliance audit a few years ago had brought to light that Google had been underpaying its women employees and was discriminating against Asians...
Fired employee wins lawsuit against Jaguar Land Rover
Termination of an employee for taking 808 days of sick leave made him charge his employer, Jaguar Land Rover, of ‘wrongful termination’.
Apparently, the said...
Pinterest settles discrimination suit, pays $20 mn to Ex-COO
Pinterest settled a gender discrimination case with Francoise Brougher, its former COO, for $20 million. Brougher had alleged that she was fired because she...
Tesla lawsuit to end as former employee agrees to pay $400,000
Martin Tripp, former process technician at Tesla, has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit, wherein he stands accused of tipping reporters on...
TCS to pay $140 million fine; employees allegedly stole intellectual property
Indian IT services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is facing a fine of $140 million as its employees have been accused of stealing intellectual...
Former COO of Pinterest alleges gender bias
Francoise Brougher, former chief operating officer, Pinterest, has filed a case alleging her former employer of gender bias. She claims she was terminated when...
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...
Ex-employee voluntarily dismisses lawsuit against Cognizant
Ravindra Guyyala, a former employee of Cognizant, had recently filed a lawsuit against the current and former board members of the multinational IT company,...
AWS employee sued for joining Google
Brian Hall, who worked with Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Service (AWS), has been sued by his former employer for joining competitor, Google Cloud.
Amazon...
$5.7 million overtime compensation for ex-Cognizant staff
American multinational information technology giant, Cognizant, will be paying $5.7 million to compensate its former employees who had alleged that they had been underpaid...
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...
Can employees start out on their own while still employed?
When a former architect in Apple’s custom processors wing left the Company after nine years to start his own venture, he was sued by...
McDonald’s sued for not addressing sexual harassment cases
A lawsuit has been filed against Mc Donald’s by its employees in a Michigan court, alleging that the fast-food chain takes no action in...
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...
Uber determined not to treat drivers as employees
Uber Technologies has been caught up in a legal argument wherein the Company has been trying to prove that its drivers are simply independent...
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...
IBM fired almost a lakh employees in five years
IBM is reported to have laid off almost 100,000 employees in the past five years, in trying to ensure a more millennial-dominated workplace.
An ex-vice...
Transgender employee wins lawsuit against employer
Anastasia, a Russian transgender woman in her early 40s, has filed a lawsuit against her employer for firing her after she underwent a gender...