Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was accused by a group of its U.S. employees of concocting a “discriminatory scheme” that favors Taiwanese foreign workers.

Deborah Howington, a talent acquisition director, filed the class-action suit in August. She claims that the HR department created a workplace at TSMC where non-Asian employees

The lawsuit claims the company “willfully disregarded diversity commitments TSMC made in the CHIPS Act,” noting that as of last year, approximately half of TSMC Arizona’s 2,200-person U.S. workforce comprises of visa holders from Taiwan.

TSMC’s Arizona plants will enable Apple chips for older devices to be made in the US for the first time, but things haven’t exactly been going to plan. The latest development is that a group of the company’s US workers have filed a lawsuit accusing the Taiwanese company of ‘anti-American discrimination’