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Senators seek probe of claims US workers fired, forced to train foreign replacements
Fox News ^ | April 10, 2015 | (Judson Berger/AP)

Posted on 04/12/2015 8:29:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai

A popular visa program allegedly is being misused by U.S. companies to lay off thousands of American workers and replace them with foreign labor.

And, adding insult to injury, many of the laid-off workers allegedly have been forced to train their replacements, in what one anonymous whistleblower called a “humiliating” experience.

The allegations have caught the attention of a bipartisan group of senators -- including immigration hawk Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and the No. 2 Senate Democrat, Illinois’ Dick Durbin -- who are calling for a federal probe. A letter sent by 10 senators urging an investigation specifically cited reports of the firing and hiring practices at Southern California Edison, California's second-largest utility. The incidents are concentrated in the IT field, and involve American workers being replaced by H-1B visa holders.

“A number of U.S. employers, including some large, well-known, publicly-traded corporations, have reportedly laid off thousands of American workers and replaced them with H-1B visa holders,” the senators wrote. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; cronycapitalism; h1b; obama
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1 posted on 04/12/2015 8:29:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah like this is anything new!


2 posted on 04/12/2015 8:31:27 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Olog-hai

““A number of U.S. employers, including some large, well-known, publicly-traded corporations, have reportedly laid off thousands of American workers and replaced them with H-1B visa holders,” the senators wrote. …”

And I bet one of them was HP....


3 posted on 04/12/2015 8:32:57 PM PDT by babygene
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To: Mastador1

Certainly isn’t. And as for the senators’ efforts having teeth? No faith in that. The Uniparty seems to want insurrection.


4 posted on 04/12/2015 8:33:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Took em long enough.


5 posted on 04/12/2015 8:34:40 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Olog-hai

Here we go again. Another USELESS AND NON-PRODUCTIVE investigation by Congress.


6 posted on 04/12/2015 8:34:42 PM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: Olog-hai

Awwwwwwww. Like anything is going to be done. Riiiigbt.


7 posted on 04/12/2015 8:34:57 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Olog-hai

This would constitute fraud.

In order to request an H-1B visa for a foreign worker, an employer needs to certify that there is a lack of qualified American workers available to do the job function , hence the need to look towards foreign labor.

To hire foreign workers on a H-1B visa in order to fire existing existing American workers is not the intent of the program.


8 posted on 04/12/2015 8:35:23 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: RightGeek

Took em long enough.

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It’s election time coming up. Smoke and mirrors.


9 posted on 04/12/2015 8:36:37 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Olog-hai

How long did it take for them to get to this?


10 posted on 04/12/2015 8:37:55 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: babygene

Google and Facebook do this routinely. Zuckerberg brags all the time about H1B visas.


11 posted on 04/12/2015 8:40:32 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Olog-hai

This has been going on for 30 years or more.


12 posted on 04/12/2015 8:46:44 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th ("We The People" have met the enemy; and he is "We The People".)
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One thing I don’t understand...
How are they FORCED to train their replacements?
Were they chained to their workstations and flogged if they did not?

Does the 13th Amendment not apply to people in tech jobs?

Maybe they were coerced into doing it, with the promise of a couple more paychecks and a good letter letter of recommendation, but if they were FORCED, then the nation is even further gone than I thought it was.


13 posted on 04/12/2015 8:58:28 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

Forced as in fired without severance package if they did not train their replacement. Carrot and stick approach. Regardless, it still constitutes fraud.

I am of the opinion that such intentional fraud should qualify for 3x damages. The damage should be assessed at the number of years the employee has worked at the company, times highest annual salary (w2), times 3.


14 posted on 04/12/2015 9:04:07 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Olog-hai

Well,,,, I wouldn’t train a replacement! I’d do something to get fired.


15 posted on 04/12/2015 9:14:06 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Refuse to train your replacement. You are fired. I have heard the stories second hand..

Nothing will come of this. some chest pounding, photo ops and maybe a token vote or two..

But it’ll stop there.


16 posted on 04/12/2015 9:17:23 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: cableguymn

Bookmark


17 posted on 04/12/2015 9:38:49 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: Olog-hai

another probe? what is the point? it’s not like republicans have the balls to do anything about anything. pussies!


18 posted on 04/12/2015 9:41:18 PM PDT by lonster
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To: lonster

They don’t have the intent. It truly is kabuki theater.


19 posted on 04/12/2015 9:44:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
The foreigners have a good work ethic and work for less!

Most American workers aren't worth the powder to blow them to hell, especially those under 40.

20 posted on 04/12/2015 9:52:24 PM PDT by dalereed
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