Jury finds TCS not guilty of anti-American bias in staffing its US offices

Company argued it had no incentive to discriminate in US

A jury in California rejected claims that Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has discriminated for years against American workers in favor of staffing its US offices with Indians.

The verdict is a major victory for the Indian outsourcing industry, whose business model depends heavily on exporting Indian engineers to the US A federal jury in Oakland, California, sided Wednesday with TCS against four former employees who claimed they’d been sidelined and fired because they aren’t South Asian.

The case was the first of several accusing India’s big IT firms of hiring bias in the US to go to trial. HCL Technologies