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This article was basically written by the plantiff's lawyer. Of course it's heavily slanted to one side. Would want to hear the other side. Even what is writte
by unreal37 13y ago
This article was basically written by the plantiff's lawyer. Of course it's heavily slanted to one side. Would want to hear the other side.
Even what is written doesn't sound lawsuit worthy. In the end, the company was offering an existing employee a raise to $50K per year and this one unrelated guy thought $60K was a better offer. It's a fine line. I can't see the guy winning his suit based on only $10K difference to an employee that doesn't even know this conversation is happening.
Companies are always trying to pay less than they have to, regardless of race. I've seen countless times employers being happy that a candidate, when asked how much salary they wanted, came back with a low number. Everyone in the hiring process knows the candidate is under-pricing themselves to the market, but lo and behold the offer comes at what they asked for. "More money to get the next candidate"
- fleitz 13y agoYeah, no kidding, welcome to negotiating, if you're getting what you asked for, you're asking for too little.
- chetanahuja 13y agoI don't think the numbers themselves are the problem. The problem is (if proven) that the hiring manager said those fateful words "...enough for an Indian".
- jedmeyers 13y agoUnless the hiring manager wrote this somewhere like an email, I doubt it will be proven at all. Anyway for now it is nothing more than just hearsay.
- bonemachine 13y agoEven what is written doesn't sound lawsuit worthy. May or may not have been, but sounds like you didn't even read the article, judging from your response. Hint: It definitely was not about a $10k salary difference.
- enscr 13y agoBesides salary difference, getting fired for raising concerns like these are sufficient grounds for a lawsuit.
- piyush_soni 13y agoCompany was not offering a "raise to $50K". He was initially working in India, and was to be brought to US - where the cost of living is much higher, and there has to be equal wages for same job regardless of national origin. Have you really read the article?