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Infosys' U.S. Workforce is Mostly South Asian and No Accident, Plaintiffs Allege

posted by martyb on Friday November 04 2016, @07:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-did-THAT-happen? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The composition of Infosys' U.S. workforce is too lopsided -- overwhelmingly South Asian -- to be an accident, allege the plaintiffs in a discrimination lawsuit.

The plaintiffs, four IT workers from around the U.S., brought their discrimination lawsuit against the India-based IT services giant in 2013. This week, they filed a motion seeking class-action certification from 2009, and say the potential pool of plaintiffs may be as large as 125,000.
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Neumark wrote that "the share of South Asian workers in Infosys' United States-based workforce, when compared to the relevant labor market, is 301.17 standard deviations higher, and the statistical likelihood that this disparity is due to chance -- as opposed to a systematic difference in hiring favoring one group over the other -- is less than 0.0000001%, or less than 1 in 1 billion."

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Friday November 04 2016, @03:28PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Friday November 04 2016, @03:28PM (#422500) Journal

    Why does the media feel it is okay to point out this criminally-discriminatory company is India-based but the workers they use are "South Asian"? Are they hiring lots of Bengali and Thai people too?

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  • (Score: 2) by BK on Friday November 04 2016, @05:29PM

    by BK (4868) on Friday November 04 2016, @05:29PM (#422539)

    company is India-based but the workers they use are "South Asian"

    Speculating: South Asian is a demographic category that is recognized by the courts where Indian is not.

    Also, Thais are not "South Asian [wikipedia.org]".

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    ...but you HAVE heard of me.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 04 2016, @05:40PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday November 04 2016, @05:40PM (#422543) Journal

    Why does the media feel it is okay to point out this criminally-discriminatory company is India-based but the workers they use are "South Asian"?

    Because that's what the lawsuit says. [scribd.com]