On 16th July 2023, Sundar Iyer, the main defendant in the Cisco Caste case, shared his experience at the Caste Con’23 on the legal battle that he fought because of a bogus case of caste discrimination filed against him and his colleague Ramana Kompella by a person identified as ‘John Doe’. Contrary to CRD’s claims, Iyer said not only did …
Washington, Apr 11 : The California Civil Rights Department has dismissed a caste discrimination case against two Indian-origin Cisco engineers. "Two Indian-Americans endured a nearly three-year nightmare of unending investigations, a brutal online witch hunt, and a presumption of guilt in the media after the CRD sullied their reputation alleging that they engaged in discrimination based on caste," said Suhag …
The United States of America had little experience of the South Asian caste system. AIC along with others filed an amicus brief in court, drawing to their attention that caste-based discrimination is unacceptable under their own local laws, like FEHA, which is California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act that “protects employees against discrimination based on a number of protected characteristics, …
A few weeks ago it came to light that caste-based discrimination was fairly common in the Silicon Valley companies, so common and so pervasive that it led to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filing a case against Cisco. In a joint statement published by the Washington Post, 30 women Dalit engineers from Silicon Valley allege that they …
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