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UT, here is your friendly corporation looking out for your best interest.


Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.
NY Times - JULIA PRESTON - JUNE 3, 2015

ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief
did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.
…
Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off.
Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers,
who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India.

Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

UT, here is your friendly corporation looking out for your best interest.

I was aware of the story last week, the Times is late to it

You could blame the Disney corporation for disrupting these 250 jobs; or you could blame the US Government's H1B Visa program which permitted it, and which has disrupted approximately 750,000 careers in this country, including mine.

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

UT, here is your friendly corporation looking out for your best interest.

FOLLOWUP: Apparently, Mickey didn't like the publicity he got! --

NY Times: In Turnabout, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs

Although the number of layoffs planned was small, the cancellation, which was first reported by Computerworld, a website covering the technology business, set off a hopeful buzz among tech employees in Disney’s empire. It came in the midst of a furor over layoffs in January of 250 tech workers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. People who lost jobs there said they had to sit with immigrants from India, some on temporary work visas known as H-1B, and teach them to perform their jobs as a condition for receiving severance.

[Lamplighter]

Maybe it wasn't just the publicity.
It's amazing how quickly the threat of a legal action puts ripples in the pond.

... from your link above:

The Labor Department said last week that it had opened an investigation into two outsourcing companies,
Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys, for work they did for Southern California Edison, a power utility.
It also referred complaints to the Justice Department for a separate inquiry.

Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, has called for an investigation of the H-1B visa program.

Tech workers who lost jobs in Orlando said Cognizant was one of the firms importing Indian immigrants to replace them.