Increasingly, U.S. IT workers are alleging discrimination

[OhioChick]

Oct 1, 2015 12:59 PM PT

Some U.S. IT workers who have been replaced with H-1B contractors are alleging discrimination and are going to court. They are doing so in increasing numbers.

There are at least seven IT workers at Disney who are pursuing, or plan to pursue, federal and state discrimination administrative complaints over their layoffs. Another Disney worker, still employed by the firm, has filed a state administrative discrimination complaint in California. These complaints are a first step to litigation.

Separately, there are ongoing court cases alleging discrimination against two of the largest India-based IT services firms, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services. The federal judges in each of cases have given a green light for the plaintiffs to proceed after rejecting dismissal efforts.

There may be federal interest in examining this issue. The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices was asked by 10 U.S. senators in April to examine the IT layoffs at Southern California Edison (SCE) and to determine whether SCE or its contractors were "engaged in prohibited citizenship status discrimination."

More: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2988621/it-careers/increasingly-u-s-it-workers-are-alleging-discrimination.html

[antigop]

1. ""engaged in prohibited citizenship status discrimination."

...interesting. Thanks.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. Back before I retired, Iwe programmers had to train our replacements,

after which the company shut down our division and moved it overseas where the programmers we trained took over for us, and we were left collecting unemployment.

But hey, it improved the company's bottom line, so no foul, right?

[cprise]

3. K&R

[LittleGirl]

4. Former IT person here

H1-B programmers were contractors from India and could barely speak English when they joined our department. Their work was highly suspect because of the language barrier but the mgmt in Germany said, okay, hire them because of course, they were cheaper than American workers. I knew that my job would be outsourced or eliminated by automation soon enough. I left in 2006 and by 2010, the office where I worked closed up shop and left town despite having a 99 yr lease on the building that cost them exit fees/penalties. I'm sure HQ wrote that penalty off somewhere in their corporate taxes.

I read the comments from that link and there were some political b.s. about this being Obama's fault (of course) but considering this happened before he was elected, there is no way this is his fault. But he had other issues to deal with which were tough choices.

Bottom Line:
This is the way corporations have screwed the workers in this country along with the union busting attitude of management. What's really eye opening is that screwing over your employees in Europe isn't tolerated and they have laws and unions protecting workers from these practices. Either that or these workers go on strike! Loudly.

We have to have a revolution in this country to get our voices back for ourselves, our jobs, our futures or the U.S. will end up as the last resort place anybody would want to work. Unfortunately, the right wing doesn't have a very good memory or just doesn't know that this has been the trend since Reagan was President. Flat wages, no benefits, no protections for employees and no future. Just like the H1-B visa holders.