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On Monday, the 30 former IT workers filed a suit against the company in an Orlando federal court. They’re seeking punitive damages.
The lawsuit contends that 250 IT workers in Florida were told they would need to train their replacements before they were fired at the end of 2014. Each replacement worker was of Indian origin, and was either brought from overseas or working outside the United States, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also alleges violations of the Older Worker Benefit Protection Act, which protects workers from age discrimination.
Disney managers were “being curt and unprofessional toward plaintiffs but treating the foreign replacements with special treatment,” the lawsuit said. “Plaintiffs were subjected to disparate treatment by defendant solely based on race or color and ancestry.”
they will though it's the benefit of being a big company they can do whatever they want and get away with it.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Irishhaf
Something is wrong with the system if this is true. There is no way that the company should be able to get away with something like this.
survey this can't be legal I know they don't ever pay attention to the law but there is somthing fundamentally wrong with having to leave your job whilst training your replacement for no reason but not being aloud to voice your distaste of it
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Darkman258
They keep your severance if you don't agree to gag order and training of the replacements.
originally posted by: Edumakated
Disney isn't the only company doing this... pretty much any company that hires a lot of IT staff does it. Companies will argue that they can't fill the jobs. It is a lie. They can fill the jobs. However, Indians don't make nearly as much as their US counterparts.