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US universities add policies to counter caste-based discrimination

A group of students who helped research the issue said that the addition of caste to the policy "provides a framework for reporting incidents" of discrimination, according to the university

Two women sue Elon Musk's Twitter alleging discriminatory layoffs

Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the company in federal court, claiming that last month's abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees. The discrimination lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal challenges over Musk's decimation of Twitter's workforce through mass layoffs and firings. Days after the world's richest man bought the social media platform for $44 billion, the company told about half of employees on Nov. 4 that they no longer had a job but would get three months severance. The lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court this week alleges that 57% of female employees were laid off, compared to less than half of men, despite Twitter employing more men overall before the layoffs. The cutbacks continued throughout November as Musk fired engineers who questioned or criticized him and gave all remaining employees the choice to resign with severance or sign a form pledging extremely hardcore work a

AI language models show bias against people with disabilities: Study

The researchers found that all the algorithms and models they tested contained significant implicit bias against people with disabilities

Former employee sues Google for discrimination against Black workers

Pursuant to its strong, racially biased corporate culture, Google is engaged in a pattern and practice of race discrimination against its African American and Black employees, the complaint states

Discrimination against Sikhs has grown in US: Rights expert to US Congress

Religious discrimination and hate crime against Sikh community in US has increased in recent years, an eminent human rights expert has told the lawmakers urging US Congress to take steps against it

Johnson orders inquiry into discrimination claim against Muslim lawmaker

The Prime Minister has asked the Cabinet Office to conduct an inquiry into the allegations made by Nusrat Ghani MP, Downing Street said

Jai Bhim controversy: Sangam moves govt against recognition for film

According to the state president of Vanniyar Sangam, the film does not deserve any recognition

Facebook paying fine to victims to settle US suit on discrimination

Facebook is paying a $4.75 million fine and up to $9.5 million to eligible victims to resolve allegations that it discriminated against U.S. workers

Amazon to probe harassment, discrimination allegations at cloud unit AWS

E-commerce giant Amazon has opened a probe into allegations of harassment and discrimination at its cloud-computing unit Amazon Web Services, after more than 550 workers signed a petition

Five women file lawsuits against Amazon alleging bias, retaliation

These women all represented by Wigdor LLP, the law firm representing a plaintiff in discrimination and harassment lawsuit against Amazon that was filed earlier this year.

FBI, US Attorney condemn acts of violence against Asian Americans

A week after a shooting incident at three Asian spas in Atlanta, senior FBI officials and a federal US attorney condemned acts of violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Freedom House downgrades India to 'partly free' for first time since 1997

The report cited "a multi-year pattern in which the Hindu nationalist government and its allies have presided over rising violence and discriminatory policies"

Pakistan FM calls on global community to address structural discrimination

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday urged the international community to address the drivers of structural discrimination, including those rooted in the history of colonialism

Azim Premji calls Covid-19 a magnifying glass for structural injustices

Says the pandemic has been a sharp reminder that the economy is a part of society and that human well-being matters in all its dimensions equally

SC-ST quota to continue till discrimination remains in society: Sushil Modi

The BJP leader said 38 of the 243 Bihar assembly seats are reserved for the SC and ST categories

Ads must not show discrimination on basis of skin colour: Choubey in RS

The Ministry of Health has issued a notice on February 3 for stakeholders' comments on a draft Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) (Amendment) Bill, Choubey said

Drumming on discrimination

Caste is, in fact, a structural problem

California accuses Cisco of caste discrimination against Indian employee

Like other large Silicon Valley employers, Cisco's workforce includes thousands of Indian immigrants, most of whom were born Brahmins or other high castes

Constitution is our guiding light, says PM Modi at Mar Thoma church event

Asserting that the govt's guiding light was the Constitution of India, PM Modi said the government did not discriminate between faiths, genders, castes, creeds or languages

Inequality, alienation, rage

The US implosion regurgitates its chequered history