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American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination

Posted by Soulskill on from the gravy-train-slowing-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Some U.S. IT workers who have been replaced with H-1B contractors are alleging discrimination and are going to court. They are doing so in increasing numbers. There are at least seven IT workers at Disney who are pursuing, or plan to pursue, federal and state discrimination administrative complaints over their layoffs. Separately, there are ongoing court cases alleging discrimination against two of the largest India-based IT services firms, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services. There may also be federal interest in examining the issue.

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  1. My experience with Infosys by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's my experience with Infosys: Their tactic is to always be the lowest bidder. When they get the contract, the staff they send generally is untrained with many of them learning the skills they need on the job on the client's dime. We had a contract with a client and were replaced by Infosys. So we had to hand over all of our functions to them; it was apparent that only one person in a team of 12 had the skills to do the job. After a year, the client fired them and came to us. But they wanted Infosys rates; we declined.

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  2. Age discrimination is obvious by Notorious+G · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I interviewed with 2 companies last year that were very up front about my being mid-40's was a problem. In one company, 5 of the 7 people I talked to brought it up and a couple clearly had problems with it. The recruiter that flew me out congratulated me on putting up with it - what an asshat.

    Over 40 in IT, hold on to the job you got because the next one won't hire anyone over 40.

  3. This is why we can't have nice things by jcadam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The concept behind the H1-B program sounds reasonable. Bring in highly skilled experts from overseas that we can't find here. However, since it's now been thoroughly demostrated that:

    1) Employers can't be trusted to act ethically and honor both the letter and spirit of the law, and
    2) The government has been steadfastly failing to monitor the program and enforce the rules

    The entire program needs to be scrapped. No H1-Bs, period. We apparently can't handle it, so employers need to find the talent here, or do without (or, you know, invest in employee development/training again).