Rajaram

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division PURUSHOTHAMAN RAJARAM, Case No. 22-cv-02920-LB

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

META PLATFORMS, INC., Re: ECF No. 25 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION This is a putative class action against Meta Platforms (known as Facebook until June 2022). The named plaintiff Purushothaman Rajaram is a naturalized U.S. citizen who applied for different jobs at Facebook in Menlo Park, California, and Austin, Texas, but was not hired, allegedly because Facebook hires H-1B visa holders because it can pay them less than U.S. citizens. (The H-1B program allows U.S. employers to temporarily hire qualified foreign workers for certain specialty occupations when the employers cannot otherwise obtain the needed skills from workers authorized to work in the U.S. 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(1)(ii)(B).) The plaintiff claims that this hiring practice discriminates…