Claims of Pro-Asian Job Bias at Tech Mahindra Revived on Appeal

A former employee claiming Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc. fired him because of illegal bias favoring South Asian staff has the chance to revive his lawsuit, after a federal appeals court found he might not have missed his time limit to sue.

The bias claims that Lee Williams brought against Tech Mahindra are eligible for “wrong-forum tolling,” since he initially tried to join them with a separate lawsuit in a different federal court before filing this case in New Jersey just outside the four-year statute of limitations, a trio of judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ...