{"id":827036,"date":"2024-06-28T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T04:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=827036"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T04:29:48","slug":"meta-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-it-prefers-foreign-workers-over-us-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/28\/meta-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-it-prefers-foreign-workers-over-us-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta must face lawsuit claiming it prefers foreign workers over US citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. appeals court on Thursday revived a software engineer&#8217;s proposed class action claiming Meta Platforms refused to hire him because it preferred to give jobs to foreign workers who are paid lower wages.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling said that a Civil War-era law barring discrimination in contracts based on &#8220;alienage&#8221; extends to bias against U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. appeals court on Thursday revived a software engineer&#8217;s proposed class action claiming Meta Platforms refused to hire him because it preferred to give jobs to foreign workers who are paid lower wages. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling said that a Civil War-era law barring discrimination in contracts based on &#8220;alienage&#8221; extends to bias against U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}