From the Miami, Florida CBS affiliate:
Former Disney IT Workers Claim Discrimination In Lawsuit
A group of information technology workers laid off by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts claims they were victims of discrimination.
They say they were forced to train their replacements from India before getting fired.
On Monday, the 30 former IT workers filed a suit against the company in an Orlando federal court. They’re seeking punitive damages.
The lawsuit contends that 250 IT workers in Florida were told they would need to train their replacements before they were fired at the end of 2014. Each replacement worker was of Indian origin, and was either brought from overseas or working outside the United States, according to the lawsuit.
The Disney bosses are looking to cut the bottom line and the imports may not be as skilled and fluent in English but they are a lot cheaper. Disney is probably contracting to an Indian employment agency that collects their money and then brings in these people from India on an H1-B visa, housing them in dormitories and paying them a pittance.
Trump will be stopping this practice.
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