In what is becoming an all-too-familiar story, another major Indian tech outsourcing company is under federal investigation for allegedly discriminating against American workers in favor of cheaper Indian labor.
This time, it’s Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT outsourcing firm, and a favored contractor for major US corporations.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has launched a probe into dozens of complaints from former TCS employees—most of them over 40, non-South Asian, and American-born—who say they were systematically pushed out of their jobs while the company retained younger Indian nationals, many on temporary work visas such as the controversial H-1B, Bloomberg reports.
These complaints, reviewed by Bloomberg, allege that TCS laid off qualified American professionals not due to performance or restructuring needs, but to prioritize importing lower-cost workers from India.
Some accusations even claim that company executives explicitly stated they wanted to reduce the proportion of American workers in favor of overseas hires.
This isn’t the first time such charges have surfaced. In the UK, former TCS workers are also pursuing legal action, claiming age and nationality-based discrimination during a 2023 redundancy program. TCS, unsurprisingly, has denied all allegations, insisting it remains committed to “equal opportunity.” But the patterns emerging from both sides of the Atlantic paint a different picture.
It’s not just TCS. In 2024, a federal jury found that another Indian IT behemoth, Cognizant Technology Solutions, had engaged in systematic discrimination against over 2,000 non-Indian workers in the U.S. between 2013 and 2022. Despite the verdict, Cognizant, like TCS, has denied wrongdoing and is appealing the verdict, but the facts are hard to ignore.
These companies, heavily reliant on the H-1B visa program, have used their massive overseas recruitment pipelines to flood the US labor market with foreign workers, in most cases paying them far less than American professionals. As a result, thousands of hardworking American graduates, especially in STEM fields, are left unemployed or underpaid, despite having invested years in education and training.
The abuse of the H-1B system has turned what was originally billed as a tool to fill talent gaps into a backdoor mechanism for replacing American workers with cheaper, more easily controlled labor from abroad.
According to EEOC Commissioner Andrea R. Lucas, appointed by President Trump, this kind of “unlawful bias against American workers” is rampant—and long overdue for a reckoning.
In 2023, TCS’s own head of global HR publicly stated that the company wanted to reduce the proportion of American employees from 70% to 50%, opening the door for more visa holders. Is this what the H-1B program was intended for? To systematically displace Americans in their own country?
This isn’t a left-right issue—it’s a national survival issue. How can any country remain sovereign and secure when its own citizens are marginalized in favor of imported labor by multinational conglomerates loyal only to profit?
For too long, globalist tech giants have played a rigged game, prioritizing visa-holding workers from third-world countries who will accept lower wages, longer hours, and less bargaining power.
American students are told to work hard, earn their degrees, and become “the future” of innovation. But once they graduate, they’re told there’s no job—because someone overseas will do it for half the price.
The United States should not serve as a training ground for replacing its own workers.
The time has come to reassert national priorities. American jobs must go to American workers—first, foremost, and always. And companies that refuse to respect this fundamental principle ought to face real consequences, not just PR slaps on the wrist.
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