The Screen Actors Guild is being sued by an IT worker who says she is not only fighting national origin discrimination, but breast cancer. Both are linked.

Yelena Kutepova was a long-time IT employee at SAG – Producers Pension & Health Plans (SAG-PPHP), a separate unit from the SAG union, until she was fired in July.

Kutepova, who worked as a senior business analyst, said that she excelled at her job, received promotions, merit salary adjustments and awards in recognition of her work. But she was being forced out after a shift in hiring practices favored, specifically, males from India who held visas to work in the U.S. The lawsuit does not specify the type of visas used.

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