Former Employee Sues Infosys (Indian IT)
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August 9, 2012, 7:23 a.m. ET
BANGALORE -- Infosys Ltd. said Thursday a former employee has sued the outsourcing-services provider in the U.S. over alleged abuse of visa rules, deepening the Indian company's legal troubles in a market that accounts for most of its revenue.
Satya Dev Tripuraneni, who worked as an accounts manager at the California office of Infosys, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Aug. 2.
Mr. Tripuraneni alleges the company's management retaliated against him for blowing the whistle on the visa practices that Infosys followed, such as using short-term business-visit visas to circumvent the fewer and expensive work visas meant for high-skilled labor, according to a copy of the lawsuit.
Mr. Tripuraneni couldn't be immediately reached for comment.
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Infosys faces new visa fraud allegation
August 9, 2012 06:00 AM ET
Computerworld - The Indian offshoring giant Infosys ran a "full-throated campaign of retaliation" against employees to deter them from cooperating with federal authorities investigating visa fraud, according to a new lawsuit.
This allegation is made in court papers by a former Infosys employee, Satya Dev Tripuraneni, who claims he was punished after raising concerns about the company's visa practices. He later met with a federal agent and filed a whistleblower complaint with federal authorities.
If Tripuraneni's complaint sounds familiar, it should. This is the second lawsuit filed against Infosys by an employee claiming he was harassed after raising concerns about the company's visa practices.
Jay Palmer, an Infosys employee, filed a lawsuit last year alleging harassment, including threats, after he refused to help the company get B-1 visas, a business visitor visa, for work requiring an H-1B work visa.
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