Cisco Sued for Discrimination Based on Caste
In an strange situation of discrimination by caste, the point out of California has alleged two administrators at Cisco Methods harassed a fellow Indian-American worker mainly because he arrives from the least expensive social team in India’s caste method.
The suit filed on Tuesday by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) also names Cisco as a defendant, proclaiming the networking tools large unsuccessful to stop the alleged harassment of an engineer discovered only as John Doe or tackle the challenge of caste-based discrimination in its workforce.
“For decades, similar to Doe’s staff, Cisco’s complex workforce has been — and proceeds to be — predominantly South Asian Indian,” the DFEH explained in its complaint, noting that more than 70% of Cisco’s H1-B visa personnel arrive from India.
U.S. work legislation does not particularly bar caste-based discrimination but the DFEH contends Cisco subjected Doe to “disparate conditions and circumstances of work based on his religion, ancestry, national origin/ethnicity, and race/color.”
“It is unacceptable for office circumstances and possibilities to be decided by a hereditary social position decided by delivery,” DFEH Director Kevin Kish explained in a information release. “Employers need to be ready to stop, solution, and prevent unlawful perform from personnel mainly because of caste.”
According to the DFEH, Doe was born at the bottom of India’s caste hierarchy as a Dalit, after named “untouchables.” As a principal engineer at Cisco, he has labored with a staff of entirely Indian employees, all of whom, except for him, are from better castes.
As beneficiaries of the caste method, Doe’s better caste supervisors Sundar Iyer and Ramana Kompella and co-personnel allegedly “imported the discriminatory system’s methods into their staff and Cisco’s office.”
“Doe was expected to accept a caste hierarchy in the office exactly where Doe held the least expensive position in the staff and, as a final result, acquired significantly less pay back, less possibilities, and other inferior conditions and circumstances of work,” the suit states.
The DFEH also promises Doe’s supervisors retaliated from him when he “unexpectedly opposed the unlawful methods, opposite to the regular get in between the Dalit and better castes.”
A 2018 study by the civil rights team Equality Labs uncovered that sixty seven% of Dalits felt they have been dealt with unfairly at their U.S. workplaces.
