IBM laid off employees required to train their foreign replacements?

[antigop]

Found in this article...

http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/news/blogpost/10808900/

Many laid off employees are required to train their foreigner replacements to do their job. This demonstrates they have the skills.

[freshwest]

1. Been going on for over 20 years with other jobs.

[JDPriestly]

2. The article specifically talks about an older worker fired because he supposedly could not learn new

skills.

If that worker lived and worked in California, he should talk to an employment lawyer who specializes in discrimination law. The local bar association might be able to give him a list of such lawyers.

[antigop]

3. But that worker makes the claim...

"Many laid off employees are required to train their foreigner replacements to do their job."

[JDPriestly]

5. Yes. The claim that the worker could not learn was a pretext.

[antigop]

4. A similar claim on another site...

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081215/BIZ/812150318/-1/NEWS

Not only is IBM continuously downsizing, they say, but it is rubbing salt in employees' wounds by having them train their overseas replacements.

"There are still layoffs going on at IBM," wrote Jim Williams, who retired in 2003 and has friends who still work there. "American jobs are being sent to Brazil, China and India, and the folks losing their jobs at IBM have to train the people taking their jobs."

After almost 28 years at Big Blue, Joe Della Pietro was laid off during a 2002 "resource action," less than four months shy of his full pension eligibility.

"I know people still working there," he wrote. "The stress is even greater. The latest IBM training method (trick) is for an IBMer here in the US to teach an overseas IBMer how to do a job. Then, once the foreigner learns the job, the US IBMer is let go."