Seagate To Pay Former Worker $1.9M For Phantom Job

Lucas123 writes "The jury in a Minnesota-based wrongful employment case delivered a verdict ordering disk-drive manufacturer Seagate to pay $1.9 million to a former employee who uprooted his family and career at Texas Instruments in Dallas to move to Minnesota for a job that did not exist. The man was supposed to be developing solid state drive technology for Seagate but was laid off months later. 'The reason that was given is that he was hired to be a yield engineer but the project never came to fruition,' the former employee's attorney said. 'They didn't care what effect it had on his career.'"

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Re:Just shows how far HR is from people doing the

[Marful]

Aren't a lot of the bullshit requirements intended to justify H-1B visas?

I thought in order to qualify for H-1B, you had to first advertise in the local area and if you can't find people then you can apply for H-1B's (which you can then change the requirements).

Re:Liability

[quadrox]

wow - wish I had modpoints. This really shows how insanse some things are. Oh well.