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Outrageous! You say! Well Disney, in Orlando Florida, did just that! They hired immigrant workers, here on temporary visas, known as H-1Bs. Then they laid off about 250 of their American workers and had those laid off workers train their immigrant replacements!
Here in the United States, the American worker, has waited patiently, to get a raise, once their employer recovers from the financial melt down. Some of the thoughts, by economists are:
• Companies tapping pools of workers who have disappeared from the U.S. unemployment tallies, creating what economists describe as hidden slack in the economy. Until this invisible labor supply is spent, these men and women, including part-timers, temporary workers and discouraged labor-market dropouts, could hold wages down.When will that slack disappear, when companies are hiring outsourcing companies to find immigrant workers, who will work for less money? The outsourcing companies then get a contract, with an American company, who can hire the immigrant workers and in turn, lay off their American employees and best of all, have the laid off American worker train the immigrant worker, who just took their job!
If the laid off worker refuses to do it, then they don't get their “stay bonus” of 10 percent of severance pay if they remained for 90 days.
• The blunt force of overseas competition makes companies reluctant to raise pay over fears they will lose sales to cheaper-priced foreign firms.We're not talking about product competition, were talking about worker competition! The employer has discovered a loop hole, in the H-1B program, whereby they can lay off their American workers, then hire cheaper immigrant workers, to take their place and the laid off American worker can even train them for their employer!
Nice way to get rid of some of those older American workers, nearing retirement age. What do they care, if that worker is going to have a difficult time finding another job, like the one he just had.
• Lingering psychological scars of a recession long past. Robert Gordon, an economics professor at Northwestern University, said his research found that wages and inflation were subject to inertia. That means unemployment could drop well below 5.5% for years before wages go up much.It's not lingering scars of a recession long past, which is holding wages down. It's corporations now bringing foreign jobs to American soil, laying off their American workers, so they can hire the foreign replacements, at cheaper wages. Then, of course, they have the gall to actually expect the American worker to train their replacement, who just took their job!
There are many questions being raised how businesses and outsourcing companies are using temporary visas, known as H-1B, to place immigrants in technology jobs in the United States. They were meant to complement American workers, not displace them.
A limited number of the visas, 85,000, are granted each year, and they are in hot demand. Technology giants like Microsoft, Facebook and Google repeatedly press for increases in the annual quotas, saying there are not enough Americans with the skills they need.Why then are these businesses laying off the American workers, hiring the immigrants, then having the laid off American worker train their replacements? How humiliating, for the American workers! Is this even legal?
The businesses found a loop hole in H-1B, so they are able to do it. The American people should demand the Legislature close the loop hole and find some way to fine businesses and outsourcing companies, who are doing this, which wasn't the purpose of H-1B.