US court clears TCS of class action lawsuit claiming it favours Indians

Indian IT presence in US remains under the cloud even as companies go all out to hire locally

In a major victory, a California jury has cleared Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) of a class action lawsuit claiming that it discriminated against American professionals in favour of staffing its US offices with Indian professionals.

On Wednesday, a federal jury in Oakland, California, sided with TCS against four former employees who claimed they’d been sidelined and fired because of their non- South Asian origin. Other Indian companies like Infosys, HCL Technologies and Wipro are facing similar lawsuits in US.

“We have always maintained, the claims made in this case were baseless and we are gratified that the jury agreed…