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L&T in US, After gender discrimination and sexual harassment, information technology services outsourcer (Outsourcing) L&T Infotech India, part of engineering and construction conglomerate, L&T Company, has now been accused of violation of immigration laws, fraud, and cover-up involving back-dating as well as fabrication of documents. The charges have been brought against the L&T Infotech company by a former employee, Nanda Pai, in a US court in the second such instance after the high-profile case involving allegations of immigration visa misuse and fraud brought against Infosys India by one of its employees, Mr.Jack Palmer. Nanda Pai, a former employee in the human resources department of L&T Infotech India, is seeking to be part of a gender discrimination class action suit filed by another company employee, Deepa Shanbhag, in a USA New Jersey court. The new complaint alleges that L&T infotech  company circumvented USA H1-B visa quotas by applying for and obtaining business visas on false representations besides getting such visa-holders to company work on onsite-client sites. Nanda Pai also said she was made a scapegoat in the immigration fraud and Nanda Pai signature was forged in some documents in visa process. The original class action suit, which Nanda Pai seeks to join, asks for higher damages of not less than amount $ 100 million.

An L&T company spokesperson declined to comment on a matter that was under consideration by a USA court of law. According to Nanda Pai, following media reports of visa fraud by information technology companies and the indictment of companies, such as Cygate Software india and Vision Systems, L&T Infotech was concerned with potential liability for having submitted false visa documents to the United States government in connection with H-1B visa applications. The firm then appointed Ernst & Young (E&Y) to audit their immigration records and procedures and the subsequent auditor's report revealed significant procedural and substantive shortcoming and documentary discrepancies reflective of widespread visa fraud, the complaint claimed. Ernst & Young company audit report showed, according to Nanda Pai, that L&T Infotech india systematically backdated and fabricated documents. "Further, defendants had routinely made misrepresentations about the wages paid to employees to the United States government in the visa applications. Employees were not paid the wages which Defendants had represented in their H-1B applications to the US government," the complaint filed to the USA court claimed. When pointed out some of these irregularities, she claimed she was asked to stay silent. The complaint alleges the company rejected applications from locals in advance, thus falsely representing that they had made best efforts at local recruitment, as required by regulations in that country.

Source: The Times of India


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