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An executive who says he was fired from a Silicon Valley tech company after complaining of anti-Asian discrimination is suing the company for US$20mil (RM92.14mil) in damages, according to a complaint.

A white executive said at a meeting that Asian workers were “steaming rice” on a factory floor in China, the lawsuit says.

A former Asian American employee is suing Silicon Valley tech company Lumentum, alleging that a yearslong pattern of anti-Asian racism ended with his…

An Asian American employee, Andre Wong, is suing multinational California tech company Lumentum for what he says was a years long pattern of anti-Asian discrimination.

Asian Americans make up a significant portion of the workforce in major Fortune 500 companies, representing 27% of employees

Andre Wong has filed a $20 million lawsuit against Lumentum, accusing the company of anti-Asian bias and discrimination.

The complaint says Asians at Lumentum endured jokes about workers cooking rice on the factory floor, and they were prohibited from speaking Mandarin even among themselves.

The lawsuit: Lumentum Operations, a telecommunications equipment commercial company, fired Andre Wong in December last year for allegedly “vocally and persistently” calling out discrimination against Asian American employees, according to the lawsuit filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on June 30. “The damages figures reflect the impairment of Andre’s future expected compensation, how he's been impacted personally and other matters, including making an ex...

Asian Americans in the tech industry are filing lawsuits alleging their companies have unfairly denied them leadership roles over their race. Denied opportunities: Vaishnavi Jayakumar, who has worked at prominent companies like Disney, Google, Twitter and Meta, is among the number of employees who have stepped forward to shed light on the issue. Jayakumar, who is originally from Singapore, claims that despite her qualifications and experience, she faced racial bias and was denied opportunities...

Asian Americans throughout Silicon Valley are unifying in support of one man after a new lawsuit was filed last month against Lumentum Operations, LLC,…