He says the people meant to protect him steered him away from filing

A 23-year Kaiser Permanente IT veteran says his own HR department helped push him out the door.

Gyan Saxena gave Kaiser Permanente more than two decades. He started as a contractor in 1997, became a full-time IT consultant in 2006, and, according to a complaint filed June 17, 2026 in federal court in Colorado, collected strong reviews and annual bonuses the whole way. He even worked as a key architect on an electronic medical record project the filing values at roughly one billion dollars.

Then a new manager arrived, and his story took a sharp turn.

The complaint says that after a new team manager took over in late 2020 and early 2021, Saxena - described as the only person of color on his team - was subjected to a racially "hostile work environment." It alleges the manager, helped by two colleagues, made "false accusations about his performance" and tried to force him to resign.

For HR leaders, the part worth slowing down on is what allegedly happened next. Saxena says he raised concerns in August 2021, then filed a formal complaint against the manager with Kaiser HR in January 2022. Rather than shield him, the filing says, Kaiser kept him reporting to the very manager he had complained about.

It gets more pointed. Saxena alleges the HR consultant assigned to help him "proofread and rewrote significant portions of his complaint," and that, on information and belief, she advised him "not to consult an...

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