Legal Claims Against Microsoft

The Brandeis Center warned Microsoft that if it continued to distribute professional benefits and advantages through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) on the basis of ethnic or racial identity, while denying these benefits to Jewish and other employees, the Brandeis Center would file a charge of discrimination with the EEOC and seek to proceed to a lawsuit. Currently, Microsoft refuses to recognize a Jewish ERG, denying Jewish Microsoft employees benefits that are provided to others. This violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.