Is Tata trying to replace Americans with cheap H1b slaves? https://www.wsj.com/articles/fired-americans-say-indian-firm-gave-their-jobs-to-h-1b-visa-holders-6da7cf26 A U.S. visa program for skilled foreign workers has long stoked concerns over American workers losing their jobs to lower-paid foreigners. Now a group of experienced American professionals is accusing an Indian outsourcing giant of firing them on short notice and filling many of their roles with workers from India on H1-B visas. The American workers say that India’s Tata Consultancy Services illegally discriminated against them based on their race and age, firing them and shifting some of their work to lower-paid Indian immigrants on temporary work visas. Since late December, at least 22 workers have filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against TCS, whose clients have included dozens of the U.S.’s biggest companies. The American former TCS employees are Caucasians, Asian-Americans and Hispanic Americans ranging in age from their 40s to their 60s and living in more than a dozen U.S. states. Many have master’s of business administration or other advanced degrees, according to the complaints, which were viewed by The Wall Street Journal. While companies often conduct layoffs that affect workers with more seniority, the American professionals say TCS broke the law by targeting them based on protected characteristics of age and race. They say the company’s move demonstrated preferential treatment to Indian workers in the U.S. on the coveted visas. ... The former TCS workers say that, despite years of positive reviews and often bonuses for their work for clients in areas such as finance, operations and supply-chain management, they were abruptly taken off projects last year. Many say TCS management thwarted their efforts to find new assignments at the company, even when asked by clients to continue on their projects, and were then terminated. Some said the work they were doing was taken over by younger, less-experienced Indian nationals on H-1B visas. In their complaints, the former employees cite comments that TCS’s global human resources head Milind Lakkad made in an interview with Indian media last year. He said TCS is trying to reduce the number of Americans it employs in the U.S. and would like to provide more opportunities to Indians there, according to the report. One former worker said in a complaint that TCS human-resources staff told employees in an all-hands meeting that the company planned to use money saved by closing down a unit that employed many of the American workers to provide jobs to more Indian nationals in the U.S. “TCS has a significant issue on its hands,” said Peter Bendor-Samuel, chief executive of Everest Group, a Dallas-based firm that advises companies on outsourcing, referring to the complaints. “The law is largely on the employees’ side,” he said. ...
And when White ass firms discriminates, administration ignores.
Ah yes making a discriminating comment to justify discriminating. "High skilled" 🤣
Boohoo. Welcome to business
You have to protect your citizens.
Didn't Apple just recently have to settle over US discrimination? Nice try Apple
Maybe the job doesn’t need Masters and lot of experience to do and therefore they were replaceable. Also, every organization has its right to reduce costs.
You're supposed to have an education and a lot of experience to get an h1b though
Yes, that’s my point. When people cry that they were replaced by lower skilled labor with less remuneration, it’s not true. So I was saying that the article is wrong. Skills must be at par but at a lower cost. So no need to pay more for labor.
This is their business model. They are not discriminating. They are replacing you with low wage slave. Same thing is going on at all other faang companies.
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American companies are doing the same Not sure if it's mainly discrimination tho
So it's ok?
Absolutely not I think both practices should be shamed, especially the American companies