Infosys sued by former US hiring executive on issue of biases

Prejean alleged in an amended complaint filed in September last year that she joined Infosys and discovered a "rampant culture of illegal discriminatory animus among the partner level executives based on age, gender, and caregiver status."

When she met with them to determine Infosys's hiring requirements and preferences, she claimed in the filing that she "tried to change this culture within the first two months of her employment" but was met with "resistance from (then Infosys partners) Jerry Kurtz and Dan Albright, who became hostile in the face of her objections and sought to circumvent her authority to evade compliance with the law."

The complaint goes on to state that she "received an order to institute such unlawful hiring criteria" when a new supervisor, Mark Livingston, the former head of consulting at Infosys, was hired and that her objections "resulted in a direct and immediate threat to her job, and ultimately did cost her job."

Specifically, she alleged that Livingston demanded that Prejean should "not put forward candidates for jobs who were over 50 years of age and women who had children at home."