“The lawsuit claimed Cognizant ousted many non-Indian workers by first taking them off projects and “benching” them without work, then keeping them benched until firing them in accordance with a company policy.”
Company policy fired anyone benched for more than five weeks. The suit says Cognizant filed H-1B applications for “jobs that do not exist” to build an inventory of visa holders for clients like Google, Meta, Apple and PG&E. A jury found the discrimination intentional. The clients who bought the cheap labor get to say they never hired anyone.