Generally speaking, an employer cannot lay off an employee only to then immediately hire a new employee to fill the laid-off employee’s position. How many think this is a grounds for a lawsuit since it takes layoffs in order to remove the hard working Americans who have seniority with the company only to hire cheap labor overseas. American Healthcare will always suffer because it is the Executives lining their pockets.
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“This sounds like an attorney or instigator who is always posting about the WARN act. “. You don’t belong here. Team mates are being tortured having to train their overseas replacements. Older employees are devastated. Too young for SSI and too old to get another job. The mental anguish is astounding. Where are the lawyers and reporters?
Well it’s happening now!
Speaking to customer service for United Healthcare is a joke. Unsure of the country that it is outsourced to but all they can do is read off a script. Today when trying to locate a local hospital that is a provider the women referred me to a children's hospital. When trying to explain why I could not receive services there she just kept repeating the same information.
I think your confused. All of the jobs are going to the Philippines. Way cheaper, no quality ... Just cheaper.
Ireland is made up of Indians. I know a few Indian IT staff that were physically relocated there.
This sounds like an attorney or instigator who is always posting about the WARN act. UHC will do whatever they can to avoid lawsuits, so generally, does not do mass layoffs. What I had a problem with was the weird relationship between Optum and UHC. UHC is highly regulated being a healthcare company. Optum uses the data and history from UHC to hire people in other countries, create claim denials, outsource as much as they can to 'support' UHC which is supposed to have rules against 'off shore' employees especially in the Medicaid space. I also never understood why Optum would try and sell stuff to other payors still being a part of UHG and a competitor.
There are departments with initiatives to back fill positions with people in Ireland. This is openly announced.
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https://velocityglobal.com/resources/blog/why-global-companies-choose-ireland/
How is Ireland cheaper?
UHC has had so many lawsuits against them. What’s one more.
Its easy and legal oldest trick in the book. Procedure perfected running around union rules in other settings. Eliminate a job title which exterminates the current high cost. Create a new title offshore just a slight bit different job function and voila target achieved accounting gymnastics are quite creative. Leader gets bonus rinse and repeat
Generally speaking Companies seldom if ever make foolish moves that are not well thought out vs. opening themselves to civil suits.