r2d2 Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste OAKLAND, Calif., June 30 (Reuters) - California regulators sued Cisco Systems Inc on Tuesday, accusing it of discriminating against an Indian-American employee and allowing him to be harassed by two managers because he was from a lower Indian caste than them. U.S. employment law does not specifically bar caste-based discrimination, but California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing contends in the lawsuit that India’s lingering caste system is based on protected classes such as religion. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Jose, does not name the alleged victim. It states he has been a principal engineer at Cisco’s San Jose headquarters since October 2015 and that he was raised at the bottom of India’s caste hierarchy as a Dalit, once called “untouchables.” That caste hierarchy was enforced in the workplace, according to the lawsuit, which accuses the two former engineering managers of harassment. Cisco said it did not have immediate comment, saying that it planned to issue a statement at a later time. Like other large Silicon Valley employers, Cisco’s workforce includes thousands of Indian immigrants, most of whom were brought up as Brahmins or other high castes. The civil rights group Equality Labs in a 2018 report cited in the lawsuit found that 67% of Dalits surveyed felt treated unfairly at their U.S. workplaces. Some employers have begun taking action. Massachusetts-based Brandeis University last year added caste to its nondiscrimination policy in what is believed to be a landmark move in U.S. higher education. At Cisco, the unnamed employee reported his manager to human resources in November 2016 for outing his caste to colleagues. The manager allegedly retaliated, but Cisco determined caste discrimination was not illegal and issues continued through 2018, the lawsuit states. Cisco reassigned the employee’s duties and isolated him from colleagues, rejected a raise and opportunities that would have led to one and denied him two promotions, according to the lawsuit. (Reporting by Paresh Dave; Editing by Leslie Adler) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dasara_bullodu1 Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 Chinta chacchina pupuu chavadu.. ikkada ki vacchi kooda caste base cheskoni discriminate cheytam avasarama... marandi ra rey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonbro Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 To all the castes 'no therapist can negate your lived experience.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitta Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 1 minute ago, dasara_bullodu1 said: Chinta chacchina pupuu chavadu.. ikkada ki vacchi kooda caste base cheskoni discriminate cheytam avasarama... marandi ra rey adi pupuuu pappu kaadu... pulupu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeShareComment Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 3 minutes ago, bostonbro said: To all the castes 'no therapist can negate your lived experience.' Nothing wrong to have kulagajji ani db slaves briefed many times.. calling all kulagajjis here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictoryTDP Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 5 minutes ago, Pitta said: adi pupuuu pappu kaadu... pulupu Typo ayi undocchu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang302 Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 Aa matram undali..elago pani undadhu ga, ituvantivi practicing aaa manavallu akkada😂😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom bhayya Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 22 minutes ago, mustang302 said: Aa matram undali..elago pani undadhu ga, ituvantivi practicing aaa manavallu akkada😂😂😂 Sundar Iyer (PhD/MS Stanford Univ. '08/'00, B. Tech IIT Bombay '98) is currently co-founder and head of Candid Systems (a Cisco Alpha Company), and is a Distinguished Engineer in the CTO group in the Insieme Business Unit at Cisco Systems. Candid (integrated into Cisco in '18) pioneered the Cisco Network Assurance Engine, a closed loop SDN based software solution built with formal mathematicals models of Data Center networks. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of Memoir Systems. Memoir (acquired by Cisco Systems in '14) pioneered Algorithmic Memory, to enable 10X Memory Operations Per Second on embedded memory. In the fall of '03, Sundar co-founded Nemo Systems, where he was the CTO and Principal Architect. Nemo aka. "Network Memory" (acquired by Cisco Systems in '05), specialized in memory algorithms for high-performance networking, developed by Sundar during his Ph.D. at Stanford. From fall '05 to '08, he co-led the network memory group at Cisco Systems, where he helped architect and build multiple generations of high performance memory sub-systems for Cisco's Enterprise and Data Center Ethernet products. In 1999, Sundar was a founding engineer and senior systems architect at SwitchOn Networks (acquired by PMC-Sierra in 2000), where he developed algorithms (some of which were conceptualized during his B.Tech thesis at IIT Bombay) for deep packet classification. He is a recipient of the Christopher Stephenson best Master's thesis award in 2000, and the Arthur L. Samuel best doctoral thesis award in 2008, both in Computer Science at Stanford. In 2008, he was awarded the MIT technology review (TR35) young innovator award for his work on network memory, and the IIT Bombay Young Alumni Achiever Award in 2014. ippudu cheppu uncle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaabuBangaram Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 36 minutes ago, LikeShareComment said: Nothing wrong to have kulagajji ani db slaves briefed many times.. calling all kulagajjis here @Ceaser @Android__Halwa @Migilindi23 @Paidithalli @kothavani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom bhayya Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 1 minute ago, BaabuBangaram said: @Ceaser @Android__Halwa @Migilindi23 @Paidithalli @kothavani please remove last 2 vallu neutrals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaabuBangaram Posted July 1, 2020 Report Share Posted July 1, 2020 26 minutes ago, tom bhayya said: please remove last 2 vallu neutrals Brahmin ane term padagane guddal (clothes) chinchukune ..paidi gaadu kooda neutral aa..oh my baala 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom bhayya Posted July 2, 2020 Report Share Posted July 2, 2020 17 minutes ago, BaabuBangaram said: Brahmin ane term padagane guddal (clothes) chinchukune ..paidi gaadu kooda neutral aa..oh my baala yes they areanti pulkhas aka neutrals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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