Lawsuit claiming Meta hires foreign workers for cheaper pay instead of US citizens gets new life

A US appeals court on Thursday revived a software engineer’s proposed class action claiming Meta Platforms refused to hire him because it preferred to give jobs to foreign workers who are paid less wages.The San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling said that a Civil War-era law barring discrimination in contracts based on “alienage” extends to bias against US citizens.The decision reverses a California federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit by Purushothaman Rajaram, a naturalized ...