Disney IT Workers Prepare To Sue Over Foreign Replacements (computerworld.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @01:13AM from the I'll-see-you-in-court dept.

JustAnotherOldGuy writes: At least 23 former Disney IT workers have filed complaints with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over the loss of their jobs to foreign replacements. This federal filing is a first step to filing a lawsuit alleging discrimination. These employees are arguing that they are victims of national origin discrimination, a complaint increasingly raised by U.S. workers who have lost their jobs to foreign workers on H-1B and other temporary visas. Disney's layoff last January followed agreements with IT services contractors that use foreign labor, mostly from India. Some former Disney workers have begun to go public (video) over the displacement process

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Re:Why would Disney do this? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-24 01:29 · Score: 5, Informative

The current corporate belief is that they have no duty or obligation to their employees. None at all. Their constant party line is that they do this for their stockholders, but that seems like a very weak argument these days.
I think mostly this is about selfishness on the boardroom and the CEO levels. It's that simple.
Someone is going to go back to the stockholder argument here I am sure, but the main stockholders are actually people at the boardroom and CEO levels so even that, to some extent, is selfishness.