Ex-Wipro staffers allege ‘racial discrimination’

IT services company Wipro is learnt to be facing a class-action suit from some of its former employees in the US who have claimed that the company favours South Asian or Indian origin employees vis-a-vis the rest.

The suit was filed in the district court of New Jersey in March and came to light recently. The employees have alleged that “Wipro operates under a general policy of ‘discrimination’ in favour of South Asians and against individuals who are not South Asian and not Indian. This general policy of discrimination manifests itself in the same general fashion with respect to Wipro’s hiring, staffing, promotion, and termination decisions.”