{"id":827343,"date":"2024-06-28T11:01:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T05:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=827343"},"modified":"2024-06-28T11:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T05:54:54","slug":"meta-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-it-prefers-foreign-workers-over-us-citizens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/28\/meta-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-it-prefers-foreign-workers-over-us-citizens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta must face lawsuit claiming it prefers foreign workers over US citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US 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 US 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<p>The decision reverses a California federal judge&#8217;s dismissal of a lawsuit by Purushothaman Rajaram, a naturalized US citizen who says Meta passes over American workers for jobs in favor of cheaper visa recipients. Rajaram is seeking to represent a class that includes thousands of workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US 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 US 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. The decision reverses a California federal judge&#8217;s dismissal of a lawsuit by Purushothaman Rajaram, a naturalized US citizen who says Meta passes over American workers for jobs in favor of cheaper visa recipients. Rajaram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827343","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}