{"id":864477,"date":"2024-10-09T08:44:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T03:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=864477"},"modified":"2024-10-09T08:44:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T03:14:38","slug":"cognizant-favoured-h-1b-holders-over-non-indian-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/09\/cognizant-favoured-h-1b-holders-over-non-indian-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant favoured H-1B holders over non-Indian workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US district court has found Cognizant Technology Solutions guilty of discrimination against non-Indian employees, stating that the company\u2019s conduct meets the criteria for punitive damages. This verdict comes from a class-action lawsuit filed nearly a decade ago by a litigation boutique on behalf of employees who alleged discrimination based on their race and nationality. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit claimed that Cognizant engaged in a pattern of discriminatory behaviour favouring South Asian and Indian-origin workers over others. Some non-Indian employees reported being terminated after being placed \u201con the bench\u201d, a term used in the IT industry to describe workers temporarily without a project but still on the payroll while awaiting their next assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US district court has found Cognizant Technology Solutions guilty of discrimination against non-Indian employees, stating that the company\u2019s conduct meets the criteria for punitive damages. This verdict comes from a class-action lawsuit filed nearly a decade ago by a litigation boutique on behalf of employees who alleged discrimination based on their race and nationality. The lawsuit claimed that Cognizant engaged in a pattern of discriminatory behaviour favouring South Asian and Indian-origin workers over others. Some non-Indian employees reported being terminated after being placed \u201con the bench\u201d, a term used in the IT industry to describe workers temporarily without a [&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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864477","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=864477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}