The California Civil Rights Department has voluntarily dismissed its case alleging caste discrimination against two Cisco engineers, while still keeping alive its litigation against the Silicon Valley tech giant. The Civil Rights Department sent a statement to The Associated Press on Monday saying the case against Cisco “remains ongoing.” “We will continue to vigorously litigate the matter on behalf of …
This will hopefully provoke the creation of caste as new grounds for discrimination in the United States. The varying subjective threshold of what may constitute “harassment” interferes with John Doe’s caste identity and legitimises a disbelief of Doe’s allegations. The case of “Dalit distrust” is further strengthened when an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Act, 1989 …
NEW YORK — California regulators have sued Cisco Systems, saying an engineer faced discrimination at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters because he is a Dalit Indian. The “higher caste supervisors and co-workers imported the discriminatory system’s practices into their team and Cisco’s workplace,” the lawsuit says. It says Cisco’s treatment of the employee, who is not named, violated the Civil …
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