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.
The program was supposed to allow employers to fill jobs where no qualified American could be found. Cruz's bill would force it to be used as it was intended to be used.
Hoping Disney gets their clock and bank account cleaned! May it be a warning to other companies.
H1B’s get the hell out of my country and go home.
The reason for H1-b is to fill jobs that don’t have enough American candidates. When you overtly fire the Americans and replace them with H1-b workers, you are not protected by it. They even made the American workers train their replacements.
The question I have for the legal eagle types that are around FR, is this: If there is collusion on breaking the law in employment between these companies, can this turn into a RICO suit?
We can only hope.
I hope it bankrupts Disney and put them out of business.
They are suing the Corporation and the current bosses, NOT WALT.
Another variant of this I witnessed was outsourcing the IT department functions to CSC.
They offer key personnel a transfer to the new company, and if you refuse the pay cut, no unemployment if it was within 10-20% of your prior wage.
If they don’t offer you a job, then it is due to duplicate skill sets in that company and you get unemployment due to layoff.
The company can then outsource “200” jobs, only 50 transfer to a lower pay rate, 50 refuse the pay cut and get no unemployment, and 100 end up laid off but the company can say we only outsourced.
I think that they are going to claim in court that the subcontractor actually was cover for them being Disney employs.
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Disney has a 60 year history of playing employment games to avoid legal requirements ,,, actors/actresses and in general performers and such are exempt from hourly wage and employment laws ... that is why Walt Disney World has ALWAYS called it’s employees “CAST MEMBERS” ... you aren’t hired to be a chef , you’re hired to play the “role” of a chef ,, or the role of a “jungle cruise guide” ... you are NEVER a CHEF or a GUIDE or an Air Conditioning Mechanic or a gardener ,, you are always said to be playing an acting role.
I hope they lose BIG ,,, in the $$BILLIONS$$ ...
The program was supposed to allow employers to fill jobs where no qualified American could be found. Cruz's bill would force it to be used as it was intended to be used.
Bingo!
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Replace Americans with Cheap Foreign Workers
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Pay Foreign Workers Extremely Low Wages
who the @#$@# thought up this H1B?
and who ever was naive enough to think it was because there weren’t enough “skilled” workers here?
really gets me mad.
I understand the reality, but it was intended to allow employers the ability to address critical needs with regard to employees that couldn’t be fulfilled with available American Citizen resources. Hence my comments about collusion and conspiring to evade that tenet.
Say it once, I’ll say it again: It’s NOT the job of biz re: E-Verify.
Again, GOVT has foisted to others that which it does or will NOT do, to create a scape-goat for their own ineptness/inability/collusion.
Biz is there to make a profit, no do the work of govt on the company’s own dime.
IMO, there should BE NO H1B/etc. visas. Nobody can tell me that the work need ‘came out of the blue’ and ONLY other countries noticed to have their citizens trained. Biz, at the least, should have scouring the country for their needs, opening internships, setting up scholarships (we pay to educate, you work for us for X yrs).
Govt (again) needs to get the hell out of the way and biz needs to pony up or shut-up. Just my $.02
No, that's just how it was marketed. As the links show, it was carefully engineered to allow employers to replace Americans with cheap foreign workers and to pay those foreign workers extremely low wages.
Regardless, fact versus impression and/or collusion, you and I agree, I think that H1B visas are overwhelmingly abused. I think my position if I had the power would be more akin to making an H1-B visa approval an act of Congress. IOW, very few and far between, EACH requiring a rigorous no bullshit allowed approval process.
We certainly agree that the program as it currently works is contrary to the interests of all but a few Americans. I fight against the word "abuse" because it implies that the statutes themselves don't need to be changed but merely properly enforced - which is very much not the case.
According to the US District Court Middle District Florida ...
At this time, it is not possible to view either the docket sheet or imaged documents. Public Access to Court Electronic Record (PACER) is a fee service which will allow you to check the status of a case and view or print the docket sheet.
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I cannot get access to the filing(s) without an in-person visit to the courthouse...no electronically imaged docs available... I attempted to register with the court to view the docket at least but they will not register non-attorneys..
Can someone please post the PACER info and case number.. THANKS
A chief executive could rightly stop the program in its tracks.
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