I'm not clear (or arguing the point) about how this is specific to H-1B. Companies routinely lay off older, more expensive workers to get cheaper, younger emplo

I'm not clear (or arguing the point) about how this is specific to H-1B. Companies routinely lay off older, more expensive workers to get cheaper, younger employees. It's not what companies should do, but they do it all of the time. And then there's this, where apparently Disney cancelled the layoffs: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/in-turnabout-disney-cancels-tech-worker-layoffs.html?referrer=&_r=0 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/us/in-turnabout-disney-... Which I don't see how that's entirely possible given that the article posted by OP specifically states that many employees were already let go in January. I can only speculate that the January layoffs were executed, and over the past week it was discovered that the 'replacement contractors' weren't the cheap magic rocket that Disney expected. That, too, happens in companies all of the time.