Labor/Employment,
Constitutional Law,
Administrative/Regulatory
May 11, 2021
Law pros urge feds to ban caste-based discrimination
The logic that a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling used last June to extend Title VII protections to LGBTQ workers seems to extend protections to workers in lower castes, too, the group argued.
In a letter addressed to the chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Monday, 12 groups and a number of law and other professionals urged the federal agency to interpret Title VII to ban caste-based discrimination.
In 2019, more than 70% of H1-B visa petitions were filed by Indian workers, according to data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Because of these numbers, tech firms are "especially prone to c...
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