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It is 100% illegal, but Disney got away with it so other big firms are following suit.
by ebbv 11y ago
It is 100% illegal, but Disney got away with it so other big firms are following suit.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoI could've sworn they had to walk that back: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney-technology-h1b-20150617-story.html http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney-technology-h1b-...
- ebbv 11y agoThey only "walked it back" enough to squash the bad PR they were getting. Once the headlines went away they went forward with their plan after all: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-colluded-to-replace-us-workers-with-immigrants.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-c...
- jeff_tyrrill 11y agoThese were two separate instances of layoffs. The grandparent link is not related to yours (except that both stories involve Disney, and both involve layoffs).
- swingbridge 11y agoDisney initially 'got away with it' because they kept the whole thing at an arms length by outsourcing to Cognizant. "Oh that's what you did, hire H1B? Yeah that wasn't us... We just outsourced to Cognizant so you should ask them about what's going on". Super shady, but it was a fleeting attempt at plausible deniability on behalf of Disney execs.