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University of California IT Workers Replaced By Offshore Outsourcing Firm To File Discrimination Lawsuit (computerworld.com)
The IT workers from the University of California's San Francisco campus who were replaced by an offshore outsourcing firm late last year intend to file a lawsuit challenging their dismissal. "It will allege that the tech workers at the university's San Francisco campus were victims of age and national origin discrimination," reports Computerworld. From the report: The IT employees lost their jobs in February after the university hired India-based IT services firm HCL. Approximately 50 full-time university employees lost their jobs, but another 30 contractor positions were cut as well. "To take a workforce that is overwhelmingly over the age of 40 and replace them with folks who are mainly in their 20s -- early 20s, in fact -- we think is age discrimination," said the IT employees' attorney, Randall Strauss, of Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli & Brewer. The national origin discrimination claim is the result of taking a workforce "that reflects the diversity of California" and is summarily let go and is "replaced with people who come from one particular part of the world," said Strauss. The lawsuit will be filed in Alameda County Superior Court.
You are underscoring the very heart of this issue. Why is only one industry a candidate for this legal replacement? H-!B should be open to all professions or not at all. Also there should be a set amount of H-!Bs available at every salary level, including executive/administrative.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
You think the cost savings was passed onto the students? Oh that's a good one.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
The same thing can be said of conservatism, or libertarianism, or any political philosophy for that matter. Adherence to a political philosophy as ones primary approach to life is inherently rooted in emotion rather than logic regardless of the philosophy in question.
Your singling out of liberalism as the one philosophy as the only one rooted in emotion indicates a clear conservative bias on your part.