H-1B: San Jose tech firm discriminated against non-Indians, favored visa holders, lawsuit claims

H-1B: San Jose tech firm discriminated against non-Indians, favored visa holders, lawsuit claims

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/09/h-1b-san-jose-tech-firm-discriminated-against-non-indians-favored-visa-holders-lawsuit-claims/

A San Jose subsidiary of an Indian digital-services company favored hiring Indian and South Asian workers for its U.S. jobs, and used the H-1B and another visa to accomplish its discrimination, a new lawsuit seeking class-action status claims.

Happiest Minds, which has its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, used visas and discriminatory hiring and firing practices to fill its ranks with South Asian workers, most of them Indian, the suit alleged. At least 90 percent of the firm’s U.S. workforce is South Asian, while the rate is about 12 percent across this country’s information-technology industry, the suit claimed.