Apple becomes first major tech company to explicitly ban caste discrimination
It is reported that Apple became the first major technology company called
Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy | Reuters
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Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination, trains managers on Indian caste system - Technology News
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The caste system is a Hindu class system in which occupations and classes are determined by birth. In India, where Hinduism is the majority, there is 'caste discrimination' which is discrimination based on this caste system. This caste discrimination has spread across the sea to Indian engineers in Silicon Valley in the United States, and it has long been regarded as a problem that it has developed into lawsuits.
India's ``caste discrimination'' is established in Silicon Valley in the United States-GIGAZINE
Technology giants such as Apple have banned discrimination on various topics such as race, but have not gone so far as to explicitly ban discrimination based on the caste system. However, it is reported that Apple has updated its policy to clearly prohibit caste discrimination within the company.
According to reports, in June 2020, California's employment regulator sued the company for ``an Indian engineer with a high caste system at Cisco Systems interfered with the career development of an engineer with a low caste system.'' At the same time, it seems that Apple's anti-caste discrimination policy was also born. The case of Cisco Systems was the first employment lawsuit related to caste discrimination in the United States.
According to Reuters, Apple acknowledges the existence of a policy against caste discrimination and commented, ``We updated the wording of the policy a few years ago to prohibit discrimination and harassment based on the caste system.'' In addition, he said that the caste system is explicitly mentioned as part of employee education. This is part of helping Apple employees better understand the new anti-caste discrimination policy, as the concept of the caste system, which is widely known in India, is unfamiliar to employees from the United States. According to Reuters, Apple's anti-caste discrimination policy was in effect as of 2020.
In addition, it is clear that not only Apple but also IBM are moving towards banning caste discrimination. According to Reuters, IBM is in the process of training managers on the topic of caste discrimination. However, it seems that caste discrimination is not explicitly prohibited on the policy.
In addition, major technology companies such as Amazon, Dell, and Facebook owners Meta, Microsoft, and Google do not specifically mention caste discrimination in their policies like Apple does.
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