{"id":932792,"date":"2025-05-22T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=932792"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T03:07:36","slug":"ex-microsoft-executive-lathika-pai-sues-tech-giant-for-rs-35-3-cr-cites-hostile-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/22\/ex-microsoft-executive-lathika-pai-sues-tech-giant-for-rs-35-3-cr-cites-hostile-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Microsoft executive Lathika Pai sues tech giant for Rs 35.3 Cr, cites hostile exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Microsoft India executive and startup ecosystem veteran Lathika Pai has filed a civil suit against Microsoft India, its parent company, and senior officials, seeking Rs 35.3 crore in damages. The lawsuit, now moved from the Delhi High Court to a Bengaluru civil court, alleges that Pai was forced to resign due to a hostile work environment, retaliation, and procedural unfairness, amounting to what she calls \u201cconstructive dismissal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Microsoft India executive and startup ecosystem veteran Lathika Pai has filed a civil suit against Microsoft India, its parent company, and senior officials, seeking Rs 35.3 crore in damages. The lawsuit, now moved from the Delhi High Court to a Bengaluru civil court, alleges that Pai was forced to resign due to a hostile work environment, retaliation, and procedural unfairness, amounting to what she calls \u201cconstructive dismissal.\u201d<\/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-932792","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\/932792","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=932792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}