All over America, corporations are firing staff and replacing them with “cheaper” workers, particularly in the area of information technology. Furthermore, these staff are being forced to train their replacements prior to unemployment – refusal to do so threatens their expected severance pay. A clear example of this, as recently reported in the New York Times, occurred at Team Disney in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Last October, around 250 staff were notified of their impending pink slips, and then told they had to spend the last 3 months of their employment training replacements.
So what is the point of this alarming, yet (currently) legal practice? The replacement staff in Disney’s case came from an out-sourcing company in India under the U.S.’s H-1B Temporary Worker visa program, designed to assist companies find highly-skilled workers when that expertise does not exist within America. These imported workforces, content to be paid less than those who previously held the positions, saves companies around 25-49% in salary per year.
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