Cisco has been accused by a federal agency of discriminating against minority job candidates, reports the Mecury News.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cites five separate 2005 job-applicant complaints that Cisco “demonstrated an ongoing pattern and practice of not hiring qualified minority candidates based on their race, color and national origin,” according to EEOC letters released to the Mercury News, the newspaper reports.
The Mercury News reports that four of the applicants are from Texas, and the fifth is from Tennessee. Four are African-American and one is Asian-American.
Cisco denied the allegations – particularly the assertion about an ongoing pattern of discrimination, the paper reports.
