Senator: Investigate Disney for firing Americans, using US visa program to ... - PRI
US Senator Bill Nelson urged a probe late Friday after a report in the New York Times. Nelson said the foreign H-1B visa program "was created to help fill jobs when there were labor shortages, not to take jobs away from anyone. ” According to the Times , Disney sought out the help of an outsourcing firm in India called HCL America and the new workers were brought to the US on H-1B visas. The H-1B visa program allows companies to place foreigners with advanced science or computer skills in positions that they can't fill otherwise, but critics say Mickey is being a little mousey on the facts here. "Many of the American workers were working in the information technology section of Disney. To spell it out, Disney style: P-R-O-F-I-T M-O-U-S-E: The company reported $7. 5 billion in profits in fiscal year 2014. Posters on social media have urged people to stop going to Disney theme parks, buying its products or seeing its movies. Hira, who has written about the Disney case, says that the company made the decision to hire Indian employees simply because it's a profitable business model. Critics note these weren't jobs Americans couldn't do. Americans were doing these jobs. Source: www.pri.org
