Former Immigration head files case against Infosys in US

This is the second time the city-based outsourcing firm is facing discrimination charges after four former employees filed a similar lawsuit, alleging discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity.

Bengaluru, June 21: A former head of immigration at IT major Infosys in the US has filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of "discrimination" against non-South Asian employees, and demanded a trial by jury before the US District Court at Texas.

The lawsuit filed by Erin Green, before a US district Court in the Eastern District of Texas on June 19, names two senior company officials, Head of Global Immigration Vasudeva Nayak and Executive Vice President and Global Head of Talent and Technology, Binod Hampapur, and makes serious charges against them.

Green, who joined the IT major in October 2011 at Plano in Texas, questioned his dismissal on June 28, 2016, while he was tasked to analyse and rectify all H-1B, L-1 and I-9 and other US immigration compliance-related issues.

"Plaintiff (Green) was subjected to discriminatory measures of increasing severity designed to undermine both his position and his professional credibility within the defendant (Infosys)," said the lawsuit, a copy of which has been accessed by a source in the know of the case.

During his five-year tenure with the company's American subsidiary, Green worked under global immigration head Vasudava and global talent head Binod in its Human Resources Department.

"My dismissal was a result of retaliation for reporting discriminatory treatment of self and other executives based on race and national origin," said Green in the complaint.

This is the second time the city-based outsourcing firm is facing discrimination charges after four former employees filed a similar lawsuit, alleging discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity.

However, a Infosys spokeperson declined to respond to the charges in the lawsuit, saying 'it is an ongoing litigation'.

The lawsuit has come at a time when Infosys has announced that it will hire 10,000 Americans in the next two years and open four centres in the US in a bid to woo the Trump administration, which has been critical of outsourcing firms for unfairly taking jobs away from US workers.

IANS