He scored fives for years - then took paternity leave and got a one
A Zscaler worker alleges his paternity leave cost him his job - and then stopped him from getting it back.
The former product manager filed a federal lawsuit on October 12, 2026, in the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, claiming the cybersecurity company retaliated against him for taking paternity leave, discriminated against him based on his sex, and interfered with his leave rights. He is seeking compensatory, punitive, and liquidated damages, and has demanded a jury trial.
According to the complaint, the worker joined Zscaler - a Nasdaq-listed cloud security firm headquartered in San Jose, California - in February 2023 as a principal sales engineer. By January 2025, he had moved into a principal product manager role. His performance reviews were consistent throughout: "fours and fives" out of five, the filing states.
On January 7, 2025, he logged his paternity leave request into Zscaler's leave-of-absence system, giving roughly three months' notice. He started leave on April 10, 2025.
Then came the conference.
In early June 2025, while the worker was still on leave, his direct manager allegedly asked him to alter his leave and travel to Europe for a conference in her place. The filing alleges a vice president had raised concerns about the manager's ability to travel internationally as a non-US citizen. So the worker went.
But when he arrived in Europe, the complaint states, the...
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