Wipro Gets Workers’ Anti-American Discrimination Claims Narrowed

Former employees accusing India-based IT consultant Wipro Ltd. of favoring South Asian and Indian workers failed to adequately allege the company has a facially neutral employment practice that disparately impacts them, a district court ruled.

The plaintiffs “fail to state a disparate impact claim because the allegations sound in disparate treatment as opposed to disparate impact,” Judge Georgette Castner said of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said in an unpublished opinion Monday, granting the company’s motion to dismiss that claim with prejudice. Unlike disparate impact claims, disparate treatment involves allegations of intentional discrimination due to ...