U.S. Jury Clears Tata Consultancy of Anti-American Bias Claims
- Federal court verdict is a victory for IT outsourcing industry
- Company argued it had no incentive to discriminate in U.S.
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A jury in California rejected claims that Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. discriminated against American workers in favor of staffing its U.S. offices with Indians.
The verdict is a major victory for the Indian outsourcing industry, whose business model depends heavily on exporting engineers to the U.S. 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.