Disney Laid Off People And Replced Them With H1Bs

[Rahul_Pulka_Gandhi01]

Aathcare....vaadu icchedi bocchu 4k to 5k....

[micxas]

so what ? .... the point is that , they were all immigrants once , they really have no right to discriminate others on that basis ...

no, citizens should  get the priority, else what is the point of having citizenship? How can a company can lay off a citizen and hire a cheap labor who himself has been trained by a citizen :), I think all they need here is transparency.

[Diana]

no, citizens should get the priority, else what is the point of having citizenship? How can I company can lay off a citizen and hire a cheap labor who himself is trained by a citizen :)

:O

[micxas]

:o

J@#D  i meant a contractor who works for a lesser pay.. 

[Diana]

J@#D i meant a contractor who works for a lesser pay..

Hmm last ki mana vallani alane chesela unnarule..

[micxas]

Hmm last ki mana vallani alane chesela unnarule..

anthe kada, when they themselves have unemployment, it's not fair to expect a job in here...:)

[Diana]

anthe kada, when they themselves have unemployment, it's not fair to expect a job in here...:)

Not immediately..cant predict future now but talent survives no matter what..

[donganaaK]

no, citizens should get the priority, else what is the point of having citizenship? How can a company can lay off a citizen and hire a cheap labor who himself has been trained by a citizen :), I think all they need here is transparency.

Lol that's not how it works in the US , it's called as the land of immigrants for a reason ..

who are we to tell a corporate company what it should be doing ? , they act in the best interests of its investors , if that needs firing a citizen in favour of a immigrant . They do it within a jiffy ...

The govt can't enforce corporations to act according to its whims in a free market ( although they do it up to a certain extent anyways ). ...

This is what I like about the US the most , everybody has an equal opportunity ...

[DaleSteyn1]

So guys Disney lo fte offer chesthe teesukovadhu h1b holders ,antha mandhi citizens ni teesesthe oka coolng period untundhi disney cannot file for GC's they have to give an explanation  

[micxas]

Lol that's not how it works in the US , it's called as the land of immigrants for a reason ..

who are we to tell a corporate company what it should be doing ? , they act in the best interests of its investors , if that needs firing a citizen in favour of a immigrant . They do it within a jiffy ...

The govt can't enforce corporations to act according to its whims in a free market ( although they do it up to a certain extent anyways ). ...

This is what I like about the US the most , everybody has an equal opportunity ...

Okay that sounds more like an argument,  but  if things get worse Congress can force Corporations of course, they can not just keep US youth unemployed and immigrants come and take their jobs..... because corp's can file visa but its  in US govt.. hands to approve how many they want to, they can amend  their  rules any  given point of time... we are looking at the same thing  here  differently..

[micxas]

So guys Disney lo fte offer chesthe teesukovadhu h1b holders ,antha mandhi citizens ni teesesthe oka coolng period untundhi disney cannot file for GC's they have to give an explanation  

roger that... but akkada implementation partners gurinchi disco 

[micxas]

Reuters

A part of the signage at the main gate of The Walt Disney Co. is pictured in Burbank, California, United States, in this file photo.

 

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The entertainment giant prefers Indian H1-B holders who can work for "cheaper pay" than American workers.

Entertainment giant Walt Disney has laid off about 250 employees and replaced them with Indians holding H1-B visas, raising new questions on how outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas to bring immigrants into technology jobs in the U.S., according to a media report.

The layoff comes amid the continued debate over immigration reform in the US as the temporary work visas are at the centre of a fierce debate in Congress over whether they complement American workers or displace them.

Around 250 Disney employees were told in late October last year that they would be laid off and many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on H1-B visas brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India.

The H1-B visa programme has also been criticised for being used to bring in immigrants to do the work of Americans for less money, with laid-off American workers having to train their replacements, theNew York Times reported on Wednesday.

The layoff caused huge resentment among the Disney employees, who said they were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.

“I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly,” the report quoted a former Disney worker as saying.

“It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it,” said the American.

The report added that Disney executives said the layoffs were part of a reorganisation, and that the company opened more positions than it eliminated.

“But the layoffs at Disney and at other companies... are raising new questions about how businesses and outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas, known as H-1B, to place immigrants in technology jobs in the U.S.,” it said.

“The programme has created a highly lucrative business model of bringing in cheaper H-1B workers to substitute for Americans,” said Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University who studies visa programmes and has testified before Congress about H-1B visas.

H-1B immigrants work for less than American tech workers, Hira said at a hearing in March of the Senate Judiciary Committee, because of weaknesses in wage regulations. The savings have been 25 per cent to 49 per cent in recent cases, he told lawmakers.

Many American companies use H-1B visas to bring in small numbers of foreigners for jobs demanding specialised skills but for years, most top recipients of the visas have been outsourcing or consulting firms based in India, or their American subsidiaries, that import workers for large contracts to take over entire in-house technology units — and to cut costs.

“But Disney directly employs fewer than 10 H-1B workers, executives said, and has not been prominent in visa lobbying,” the report quoted officials of the organisation as saying.

 

 

 

[siru]

So guys Disney lo fte offer chesthe teesukovadhu h1b holders ,antha mandhi citizens ni teesesthe oka coolng period untundhi disney cannot file for GC's they have to give an explanation

Naa talent ki Disney vadu job offer kuda istada :o

[siru]

ReutersA part of the signage at the main gate of The Walt Disney Co. is pictured in Burbank, California, United States, in this file photo.





TOPICS economy, business and finance media
labour labour dispute
The entertainment giant prefers Indian H1-B holders who can work for "cheaper pay" than American workers.
Entertainment giant Walt Disney has laid off about 250 employees and replaced them with Indians holding H1-B visas, raising new questions on how outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas to bring immigrants into technology jobs in the U.S., according to a media report.
The layoff comes amid the continued debate over immigration reform in the US as the temporary work visas are at the centre of a fierce debate in Congress over whether they complement American workers or displace them.
Around 250 Disney employees were told in late October last year that they would be laid off and many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on H1-B visas brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India.
The H1-B visa programme has also been criticised for being used to bring in immigrants to do the work of Americans for less money, with laid-off American workers having to train their replacements, theNew York Times reported on Wednesday.
The layoff caused huge resentment among the Disney employees, who said they were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.
“I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly,” the report quoted a former Disney worker as saying.
“It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it,” said the American.
The report added that Disney executives said the layoffs were part of a reorganisation, and that the company opened more positions than it eliminated.
“But the layoffs at Disney and at other companies... are raising new questions about how businesses and outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas, known as H-1B, to place immigrants in technology jobs in the U.S.,” it said.
“The programme has created a highly lucrative business model of bringing in cheaper H-1B workers to substitute for Americans,” said Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University who studies visa programmes and has testified before Congress about H-1B visas.
H-1B immigrants work for less than American tech workers, Hira said at a hearing in March of the Senate Judiciary Committee, because of weaknesses in wage regulations. The savings have been 25 per cent to 49 per cent in recent cases, he told lawmakers.
Many American companies use H-1B visas to bring in small numbers of foreigners for jobs demanding specialised skills but for years, most top recipients of the visas have been outsourcing or consulting firms based in India, or their American subsidiaries, that import workers for large contracts to take over entire in-house technology units — and to cut costs.
“But Disney directly employs fewer than 10 H-1B workers, executives said, and has not been prominent in visa lobbying,” the report quoted officials of the organisation as saying.

Disney made sure that laid off employees cannot talk bad about the company's actions..
Its a condition they putin inorder to get their severence package

Looks to me like its well thought of the employees reactions