Trial Alleging Discrimination Against American Workers Begins

[rangerrebew]

Trial Alleging Discrimination Against American Workers Begins


Tue, Nov 6th 2018 @ 4:59 pm EST

In a trial that began Monday, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. is defending itself against claims that it prefers H-1B guest workers from South Asia and Indian expatriates over qualified American workers. The plaintiffs’ attorney, Daniel Kotchen, said the goal of the lawsuit is to force outsourcing companies like Tata to stop violating U.S. anti-discrimination laws.

Kotchen is representing a class action of about 1,000 former Tata workers – all non-South Asian and mostly U.S. citizens -- who were fired after the company refused to assign them any U.S. clients. The plaintiffs allege Tata instead gave assignments to Indian expatriates and H-1B visa holders from India.

https://www.numbersusa.com/news/trial-alleging-discrimination-against-american-workers-begins

[ConstitutionRose]

I worked for a large US insurance company that let all their mainframe programmers go and hired an Indian company to do the programming.  The Indian company sent in a new team of programmers for each revision and not a single one of those revisions worked.  The revisions would be rolled out and then be reversed after a few days of frantic effort by IT to make them work.  Then the scandal hit.  The Indian company was Satyam. ( https://www.forbes.com/2009/01/07/satyam-raju-governance-oped-cx_sb_0107balachandran.html#324532d93044).  The insurance company was forced to hire back as many of its former programmers as it could at many times the salary those individuals had made as employees.


BUT for one quarter IT costs were greatly reduced and the CEO got a big fat bonus for that reduction.

[XenaLee]

I have never understood why American companies seem to insist on hiring foreign workers for their IT security issues.  It makes no sense.  Those foreign workers have no sense of loyalty to that company, no vested interest in protecting the security of that company and like a revolving door of employees, come and go without ever having put down roots.  That equates to the least efficiency in employee productiveness, in my book of logic. 

One of the energy companies where I worked hired nothing but outsourced (foreign) IT guys.  You wouldn't believe the amount of porn I found stored ON THEIR SERVERS after about a year.  Enough that the company could have been sued out the wazoo for allowing such "stuff" to be accessible on their network.   

Again, foreign outsourced workers have no reason to NOT do such things.  They'll just go on to another consultant company if caught and fired.