Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers With Immigrants

The New York Times ^ | JAN. 25, 2016 | By JULIA PRESTON

[Hojczyk]

Even after Leo Perrero was laid off a year ago from his technology job at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. — and spent his final months there training a temporary immigrant from India to do his work — he still hoped to find a new position in the vast entertainment company.

But Mr. Perrero discovered that despite his high performance ratings, he and most of the other 250 tech workers Disney dismissed would not be rehired for at least a year, and probably never.

Now he and Dena Moore, another American laid off by Disney at that time, have filed class-action lawsuits in federal court in Tampa against Disney and two global consulting companies, HCL and Cognizant, which brought in foreign workers who replaced them. They claim the companies colluded to break the law by using temporary H-1B visas to bring in immigrant workers, knowing that Americans would be displaced from their jobs.

“I don’t have to be angry or cause drama,” said Ms. Moore, 53, who had worked at Disney for 10 years. “But they are just doing things to save a buck, and it’s making Americans poor.

[biff]

Yep, they will get a 2 or 3 hundred thousand $ fine and they will go on down the road still doing what they are doing now.

[Chainsawj]

Disney will make some $$$$$ appear in certain bank accounts and then this will be settled, nobody will be punished.

Going to Universal Studios this year instead of Disneyland.

[Gadsden1st]

It is not just Disney.

https://www.thelayoff.com/becton-dickinson-and

[AuntB]

Ted Cruz: I’ve introduced legislation to increase the number of H1B visas...I want innovators, I want-
Laura Ingraham: But they abuse that...the H1B thing is one of the most abused vehicles that corporations are using today...Disney just laid off a bunch of Americans- I assume you don’t support that? 150 Americans laid off by Disney...bringing in the foreign replacements...and they’re training their foreign replacements...I mean, that’s an H1B visa person we need!? I don’t get that...you don’t support the way they did that, do you?
TC: I, uh, um, I don’t know the facts of that Disney example-
LI: I just told you the facts!

http://www.mofopolitics.com/2015/07/07/ted-cruz-wont-criticize-disney-for-making-american-workers-train-foreign-replacements/

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