Posted on 01/26/2016 12:14:25 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Edited on 01/26/2016 12:20:05 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The lawsuits were filed in federal court, in the Middle District of Florida, by Leo Perrero and Dena Moore, who were among 250 Disney tech workers laid off about a year ago. The lawsuits seek class-action status.
Defendants include HCL Inc. and Cognizant Technologies.
I’d love to see the workers win big on this.
I would imagine the HR guys at the Disney operation who pushed to get the H-1B visas....are sitting with the lawyers presently and a bit worried over their ‘dream job’. None of them expected to be brought into court, and Disney will count every single dollar lost on this court episode as judgement against some stupid policy.
This is happening everywhere. I still don’t get how they can sue for something the government is enabling.
And Trump is breathing heavily into the alien balloon
The magic of Trump is the fire he lit under EVERYONE’S ass
Nothing is quite as soul destroying as training someone to take your job. It took me 4 months to find another job for less pay and with less responsibility; my career never recovered. The ones who were left behind literally cheered and applauded as I walked out with my little box for the last time. Some of the Indian guys were clapping too. They knew they were being used to screw other people over and most didn't like the situation much better than we did but they needed the work too.
To any young person contemplating a STEM career who asks I tell them don't bother. You'll only end up working your butt off in college while other guys are on Spring Break and in the end you'll be left with massive student loans and no real career path. Consider a career in HR or marketing research.
They are actively colluding with consulting companies on how to jiggle the H1-B visa program and subvert the intent of the program. This is happening all over the country.
The main effect that comes from these programs is that these supposedly temporary workers always seem to be able to work the system to get a permanent status and then citizenship.
I don’t begrudge companies in trying to cut costs as much as possible, but when they actively collude and conspire to aid immigrants who would otherwise have to wait their turn advance through the process ahead of all the others, it is that company effectively subverting the sovereignty of my country. I hope these workers break Disney in a lawsuit win.
Yeah. And a lot of "our" pols in DC are stuck with their dirty little secrets becoming public. Some US Senators and HOR members come to us for election day and say they want to stop the invasion of the USA. Then they turn around and enable it by wanting to increase H1B visas five-fold.
Any candidate who does not insist on EVerify and US jobs for US workers is playing us.
I will not say who in particular I'm referring to. <^..^>
because the h1 visa program is specific on what jobs they can use for the program. I have not looked at the rules but I think currently the program is being abused. the Disney employess were working for a subcontractor that was replaced by another subcontractor who was using h-1 visas. I think that they are going to claim in court that the subcontractor actually was cover for them being Disney employs.
And they wonder why there’s deflation.
I’ve had three engineers work for me who were the American Citizen products of the H1-B VISA process. They spent their early careers getting all the stuff needed to get permanent status and wangled citizenship.
By the time they got to me (I did not hire them), they really weren’t what I’d classify as the ‘innovative research’ type I was looking for as an employee. They were good in the rote mechanics of STEM but there completely lacking in innovation, imagination, drive and desire to take an idea and make something real out of it, which in my opinion is what really sets American innovativeness above a lot of the rest of the world. No fire in the belly.
Me neither. The law sucks.
People usually think I'm joking when I tell them the same thing, but I'm quite serious. I don't tell them the reasons why I came to that conclusion, since it isn't real flattering.
Mr. niteowl77
Literally cheered as you walked out? Why would they do that?
-I still don’t get how they can sue for something the government is enabling.-
You are probably correct and the actual suit has nothing to do with H1B. Most likely Disney did not follow a state employment law. Either they laid off without notice, they failed to document a reason, or they had an agreement in the contract that they did not observe.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, another Republican presidential candidate, also introduced a bill with Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to increase the minimum wage for H-1B holders to $110,000 annually.
Rubio wants more workers to be allowed and Cruz wants to pay them more! Tell me again why I should vote for the ruling political class! Totally beyond tar and feather time in DC. Grrrrr
Because I was the first one to find a real job and get out. At that time, 2002 there was a glut of tech workers following the .com bust and jobs were hard to come by. It gave people hope that there might be life after severance.
Also, it was the statement. I walked away from a lot of money by not hanging in for 2 more months. It was my way of saying screw you too to the outfit that was screwing me over and a lot of people liked that.
FWIW, the whole thing didn't work out well for The Company and they ended up severing the contract with the outsourcer after about a year and a half. Then they sort of wound down. I hear from the people they have let go since that the severance packages weren't nearly as good as what we were promised.
Oh - I mistook your comment as if they were applauding your leaving in a “glad to see you go” sort of way.
I’m sure a few of them were. :-)
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