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Former American staffer sues TCS
Former American Staffer Sues TCS. Tata Consultancy Services has been sued by a former American employee who accused the IT giant of \"discriminating\" against individuals who are not South Asians in hiring and job placement.
Washington: Tata Consultancy Services has been sued by a former American employee who accused the IT giant of "discriminating" against individuals who are not South Asians in hiring and job placement.
Steven Heldt alleges in a civil complaint filed in the US District Court in San Francisco that he experienced "substantial anti-American sentiment" and was fired by Tata Consultancy after working at several of the company's US offices for 20 months because he was a Caucasian American.
"Tata has engaged in a systematic, company-wide pattern and practice of discriminating in favour of South Asians and against individuals who are not South Asians in hiring, job placement, and termination," Heldt said in his April 14 complaint. Tata is the only defendant.
Heldt accuses it of threefold discrimination: hiring 95 per cent of its workers, most of them from India, on H-1B, L-1 and B-1 visas; hiring a disproportionate number of local South Asian workers; and discriminating against non-South Asians in promotions and firings.
He says that Tata made more than USD 13 billion last fiscal year, more than half of it from North America, and the "vast majority" from the United States.
Reacting to allegations, a Tata spokesman in an email said: "TCS is confident that Heldt's allegations are baseless, and plans to vigorously defend itself against his claims.
