Wipro class action lawsuit: five former employees file class action lawsuit against Wipro for discrimination

BENGALURU: Five former employees of US-based IT service provider Wipro filed a class action lawsuit against the Bengaluru-based company alleging “discriminatory employment practices” based on race and nationality.

The lawsuit was filed last month in the New Jersey District Court.

These employees have sought “precautionary, declarative, equitable and monetary measures for the systematic pattern of Wipro and the practice of discriminatory employment practices based on the race and national origin of the people.”

According to the lawsuit, the five former Wipro employees, Gregory MacLean, Rick Valles, Ardeshir Pezeshki, James Gibbs and Ronald Hemenway, have alleged “discrimination” against those who are not of South Asian and Indian origin.

Four of these employees are of American origin, while one of them is of Iranian national origin and resides in California.

“Wipro operates under a general policy of discrimination in favor of South Asians and against non-South Asian and Indian people. This general policy of discrimination manifests itself in the same general way with respect to Wipro’s hiring, personnel, promotion and dismissal decisions, “the former employees of the lawsuit alleged.

Meanwhile, Wipro declined to comment on the development, saying the matter is subjudicial.