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Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans (computerworld.com)
dcblogs quotes a report from Computerworld: After Disney IT workers were told in October 2014 of the plan to use offshore outsourcing firms, employees said the workplace changed. The number of South Asian workers in Disney technology buildings increased, and some workers had to train H-1B-visa-holding replacements. Approximately 250 IT workers were laid off in January 2015. Now 30 of these employees filed a lawsuit on Monday in U.S. District Court in Orlando, alleging discrimination on the basis of national origin and race. The Disney IT employees, said Sara Blackwell, a Florida labor attorney who is representing this group, "lost their jobs when their jobs were outsourced to contracting companies. And those companies brought in mostly, or virtually all, non-American national origin workers," she said. The lawsuit alleges that Disney terminated the employment of the plaintiffs "based solely on their national origin and race, replacing them with Indian nationals." The people who were laid off were multiple races, but the people who came in were mostly one race, said Blackwell. The lawsuit alleges that Disney terminated the employment of the plaintiffs "based solely on their national origin and race, replacing them with Indian nationals."
No, because (somewhat ironically) its illegal to pay Americans that little.
Not if a job requirement was specified as being able to speak in Telugu. Boom your discrimination lawsuit has as much chance of guys filing a discrimination lawsuit against stripclubs hiring girls only
**Life is too short to be serious**
I have seen US workers work weekends, out of hours and holidays for my entire career. Often covering for contractors and overseas Asian teams who never seem to be available outside of their regular hours. Also they seem to be impossible to contact during their month long holidays no mater the crisis the customers are having.
They just lack the the Protestant work ethic.
And the US workers who "go the extra mile" get laid off anyway. I can only attribute it to race and national origin discrimination.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
> H1-B holders need to be paid market salary.
Its a lot more tricky than that.
Determining prevailing wage is based on the LCA (labor conditions application) which basically defines the job. But the employer can file for an H1B for a job multiple times using a different LCA each time. So they can list different "prevailing wage" rates for the same job. Then, once any one of those H1B applications is approved by the government, they switch out the LCA for any of those that were filed, even the ones that were not approved. So basically its a bait-and-switch the labor department, promising to pay high wages and then paying the lowest wages they ever filed for. And the kicker is its all legal.
I know this is seen as a useless attempt. However, I personally have. Instead of taking our grandson to Disney World two years ago, we took him on a road trip and visited 9 national parks instead. This year again we boycotted Disney and went to NY and Washington DC. Both trips the last two years cost us LESS Than one week in Disney World. A week there is at LEAST $10K (if you stay at one of their resort hotels) for a family. So imagine if 1,000 people did the same thing and saved $10K. That would be $10,000,000 Disney would lose.
Just a thought....
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It will be easy for Disney to defend itself. They didn't hire the workers. They outsourced their IT work to a third party company. They're the ones that hired the H1B workers. Disney just did what a lot of companies do, something I hear all the time, even in the public sector. Concentrate on your core business. Get rid of everything else. If it's something you still need done, hire an outside group to do that.
I work in IT at a state university. I've seen/heard this multiple times. Even when pointing out that the outside service will cost more that us doing it ourselves, we're told it's not part of our core mission, so we have to shed it. More than once I've been told I'm bordering on insubordination when pointing out the stupidity of some of the managements decisions.
Minimum salary for h1b by law is $60,000. No requirement on benefits other than obamacare. They get alot less. Limits on where they can work. If fired and dont find a new job in 3 months they have to leave the country. Frequently forced to sign contracts in india with penalties in india if they quit for more money.
I work with h1bs. Have for years. Always the lowest paid people on the team by alot. You can google h1b law. Wikipedia explains salary. There is even a government page that lists all h1b wage by company and job. The wages are much lower than for americans.
This idiot is blowing smoke