Topic: 400 layoffs in favor of H1B immigrants at SCE California

[Pandora]

Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India.

Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs.

... The IT organization's "transition effort" is expected to result in about 400 layoffs, with "another 100 or so employees leaving voluntarily," SCE said in a statement. The "transition," which began in August, will be completed by the end of March, the company said.

... SCE, Southern California's largest utility, has confirmed the layoffs and the hiring of Infosys, based in Bangalore, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in Mumbai. They are two of the largest users of H-1B visas.

... Displaced IT workers have long protested and complained about the use of H-1B workers, but they are overshadowed by large tech companies that lead H-1B lobbying efforts in Washington. IT workers are also effectively silenced through severance agreements that include non-disparagement clauses and confidentiality provisions, as well as fears that public complaining may hurt re-employment prospects.

Replacing U.S. workers with H-1B workers violates the spirit if not the letter of the law. Hira pointed out that as a part of the application process to obtain H-1B approval from the Labor Department, an employer is required to attest to the following: "Working Conditions: The employer attests that H-1B, H-1B1 or E-3 foreign workers in the named occupation will not adversely affect the working conditions of workers similarly employed." This statement is in Form 9035CP of the LCA.

Further, Hira noted that the Labor Department states, "The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires that the hiring of a foreign worker will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers comparably employed.

"The SCE case is clearly one where the hiring of the H-1B is adversely affecting the wages and working conditions of American workers," Hira said. "There isn't a clearer cut case of adverse impacts - the American worker is losing his job to an H-1B."

O noes, they said.  We don't have enough STEM people of our own, they said.  We need more H1B Visa immigrants for unfilled job openings, they said.

The 'they saids' lied.  Because, obviously, these are not jobs Americans won't do, or aren't trained to do.

[Libertas]

Meh!

Most of those who lied are libiots or CoC Pubbies no better than libiots...most of these outfits are libiot-run, and a lot of these sh*tcanned workers are libiots or Pubbie-lovin' idiots...

They should be used to this routine by now...

So just take your licks like good little serfs!!!



Oh, and while your being spanked, stop being fricken racists!

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[Glock32]

Yeah next time we hear about this supposed STEM shortage, tell them you know where 400 are currently available.

[richb]

Yeah,  there is no labor shortage in any industry.   The problem is expectations on both employer and employees.  Add to the almost government agency like amount of bureaucracy that infects most large businesses these days,  and its no wonder you get stupidity like this.

[ToddF]

There is a shortage of skilled labor.  It's already showing up in parts of the country.  The shortage of electrical workers is soon expected to grow to 150,000.