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The California jury has unanimously sided Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) stated that in contrast to the allegation made against the company, TCS did not discriminate against non-South Asian workers in the US.
As per legal news portal law360.com, the nine-member jury found in an Oakland, California court on Wednesday voted unanimously that the TCS did not have a “pattern or practice” of intentionally discriminating against non-South Asian workers due to their race or national origin.
The lawsuit was filed by three former TCS employees, Christopher Slaight, Seyed Amir Masoudi and Nobel Mandili, in the litigation, claimed that they received fewer work opportunities and were eventually fired because of their races and national origins.
The prosecutor Daniel Kotchen presented data showing that fewer than one per cent of South Asian employees, mostly Indians, were fired in the US as compared to 10.6 per cent of non-South Asian counterparts. The suit also alleged that 78 per cent of non-South Asian workers who were taken off job assignments, or “benched” from work were terminated.
The TCS executives testified at trial that the company had recently raised its year-over-year retention rate to 82 per cent from 69 per cent and that the number of US residents hired and retained by the company had increased.
Tata’s counsel Terry Garnett of Loeb & Loeb LLP also argued that the company’s employment data show there’s been a 400 per cent increase in local hires since 2011.
