~15min. segment. It's all worth watching, but particularly from ~9:55 - 11:07. Just unbelievably sickening.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/are-u-s-jobs-vulnerable-to-workers-with-h-1b-visas/
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American are justified in claiming H1B is badly misused. Indian companies are indulging excess profiteering even in the domestic job market. Senior employees are systematically being denied opportunity to work on new technologies and the fired after they train junior employees.
many of the victims of the practice evolved by nasscom aligned companies fall in the age band of 35-45 years are falsely labeled as technically outdated and non performers. They are denied credit for their work for period of 2-3 years and them labeled as mediocre nad placed in special bucket list which is secretly maintained. Once a person is put in the bucket the person will find himself frequently on bench and denied allocation into project even if he is found suitable and clears client interview. companies have cruel practice of not hiring those who are not on working, effectively ending careers of the people who are fired.
Indian IT firms have some very outdated and bad HR practices that snatch all right of employees.
see the nasty practice indian management. All techies over 35 are considered outdated and fired.
The news press release of top Indian IT services CEO.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/tech/ites/a-techie-and-above-30-you-are-most-likely-to-be-fired/articleshow/57509522.cms
urgent need to contain the damage the brick mortar cum tech indian IT players TCS, techm mahindr and wipro as they are trying to bring down slaries to slavery level and exploit the service sector.
In Canada jobs are 'outsourced' and end in India , and the Philippines.. without fanfare or comment.
Never saw any outrage over this.. Sears call centres closed down and ended up overseas for example.
Another issue is young people in Canada are not going to learn all this old technology , yet the young people in these other countries are... so when everyone retires here, at least someone can continue on... hopefully...
The 60 Minutes piece only scratched the surface of the H-1B abuse, and outsourcing issues in the United States.
These practices have been in-play for the last 20 years, and are now, because of the shift in Washington D.C. are now just getting some attention. It's pathetic. How many lives have been destroyed?
The issues 60 Minutes reported on unfortunately only scratched the surface. There are bigger issues - how we build hollow corporations, how we don't develop our workforce's any more - that someone needs to pay attention to, and fix.
The H-1B, and outsourcing phenomenon in the United States have decimated our workforce's across multiple business' and industries. There is no coming back from this, and everyone knows it. A generation of workers, and their invaluable skills, have been lost forever - thrown away like garbage. An insatiable corporate greed, fueled by punk CEO's has taken over, and will unfortunately never be crushed into submission.
The Indian 60 Minutes invented for the interview was a phony. Typical biased CBS reporting.