this is happening more and more and it is scary for the employees and not a good way to save money for the company.it maybe legal but it is morally wrong (IMO)
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3039353/it-careers/sen-durbin-calls-abbott-labs-it-layoffs-harsh-and-insensitive.html
Why isn’t it illegal for companies in the US to fire American workers to replace them w H1-B visa holders???
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gmt what I have seen on a personal level is… my mom’s friend in I.T. had her department shipped to india. first the Indian employees were flown to the united states and trained by the people who were getting fired. if you did not train your replacement you got zero severance. the people from india trained and were sent back to india, the people here in America were sent into the street with a box full of family photos and other personal belongings.
no need to worry about the h1-b…the new people were not coming to stay in America for more than 2 or 3 weeks.
This is today’s world - you get laid off but first go to India and train your replacement. Happening in banks/brokerage firms - all sorts of companies - outsourcing, moving to lower cost centers, taking on cheaper employees. Cost savings with no thought to anything else - morality, loyalty, even the quality of the work.
kiddie, quality is often sacrificed big time. and no chance I am going to india to train anybody. the lady I know the people from india were brought to the united states.
Yes, this is happening everywhere. If I had a child considering an IT career, I would have them think long and hard about that.
This makes me nervous for my son who plans to study CS.
Why is our government encouraging kids to pursue STEM degrees if more and more of those jobs will be outsourced to foreign workers?
I’ve been boycotting Disney for the same reasons.
"why is our government encouraging kids to pursue STEM degrees "…just empty talk for talking heads.
@SouthFloridaMom9, you’d have to boycott most of the Fortune 500 to avoid doing business with companies that offshore at least some of their IT work. 
This is so wrong.
It’s happening because Americans like low prices, and because people who invest in companies like profits. Changing either of those is pretty hard.
I don’t buy the low price c**p. If the only that’s lower is the price, then yes. It has a merit but the wage is also kept low because of that. You don’t gain anything by low price if your earning sare also low to keep the price low. It doesn’t benefit the majority of people. Who needs all that stuff anyway?
I was particularly annoyed with Disney - have spent alot of $$$ there through the years. And their prices just keep going up.
If there are not American workers to do the jobs, that’s one thing (and I actually think that’s a bogus argument most of the time too).
Did someone say it was 1995 and NAFTA that set the depletion of middleclass in the US? Apparently, the powers didn’t plan on what they were going to do with people who lost their jobs and keep up the middle class. I was hoping vigorous tech sector will alleviate the problem. We may come to a point when middle-class is so dwindled that we may not have democracy anymore.
Remember Ross Perot and ‘that giant sucking sound’. He was right.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/when-a-coin-drops-in-asia_b_9394178.html
The article seems to think it’s the currency manipulation.
I can’t believe a HuffPo writer agrees with Trump.
Here’s an economist saying the same,
https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/04/bib/010304.rv101316.html
Quest labs did the same thing and then because they knew the current workers were desperate to keep some of their income, paid them to stay on as contract workers and TRAIN the replacements from India!
There is a bill trying to move out of committee in Maryland for companies to disclose how many and what types of h1b employees they have. In my state even hotel employees and wait staff are being brought in. I daresay some people in Baltimore might be very well qualified to wait tables and work in the hotels.