A former Oracle employee has reportedly filed a lawsuit against the company accusing it of firing him for complaining against the company’s employment practices under which Indian employee were offered a substantially lower pay than Caucasian workers holding the same position.
Ian Spandow, a former senior regional manager for database sales, filed the suit last week against the U.S. software vendor in a San Francisco federal court claiming that his December termination was in vengeance for his objection against the company’s discriminatory practice “of paying Indian employees’ wages that are substantially lower than those paid to Caucasian employees”.
Spandow, who joined the company in 2005, had earlier sought an approval to transfer an employee in India, with a successful seven-year track record with Oracle, to California in September. According to the complaint, when he requested for a salary equal to what Oracle paid its Caucasian workers for this particular Indian employee, he was told by his sales director to slash the offer by a significant amount of US$50,000 to US$60,000 as the salary would be “good money for an Indian “.
Oracle’s human resources manager even said that there was nothing wrong with offering a lower salary, Spandow added in his complaint.
In the suit, Spandow has claimed his termination from the company was unlawful discrimination based on his national origin and that too out of retaliation. He is seeking for unspecified damages.
[Source: Bloomberg]
This is not surprising as ORACLE
has demonstrated to act with doubtful business and HR-practices. For
example Rodger Smith SVP UGBU has hired Bill Devereaux who is known in
the market as spying, lying and infiltrating. PG&E was fined with
390.000$ for the wrongdoing of Bill and PGE subsequently fired Bill – But
ORACLE hired this expert and fired many other trustworthy and loyal
employees. And moreover ORACLE has promoted Bill Devereaux and rewarded Bill with a strong 6 figure salary.
All of that is public and can be reviewed on google,
youtube, CPUC, PGE, ORACLE, etc…
At the same time ORACLE is firing
people in different high cost European countries to hire in low cost
countries and optimizing / circumventing labor, fiscal and social laws.