‘Won’t allow H1B holders to replace US workers’

Washington, December 10

President-elect Donald Trump has said he would not allow Americans to be replaced by foreign workers, in an apparent reference to cases like that of Disney World and other American companies wherein people hired on H-1B visas, including Indians, displaced US workers.

“We will fight to protect every last American life,” Trump told thousands of his supporters in Iowa. “During the campaign, I also spent time with American workers who were laid off and forced to train the foreign workers brought in to replace them. We won’t let this happen anymore,” Trump vowed amidst cheers and applause from the audience.

“Can you believe that? You get laid off and then they won’t give you your severance pay unless you train the people that are replacing you. I mean, that’s actually demeaning maybe more than anything else,” he said.

Disney World and two outsourcing companies have been slapped with a federal lawsuit by two of its former technology staff, alleging that they conspired to displace American workers with cheaper foreign labour brought to the US on H-1B visas, mostly from India.

Leo Perrero and Dena Moore were among 250 workers laid off from their jobs at Walt Disney World in Orlando in January 2015. They have also dragged two IT companies, HCL Inc and Cognizant Technologies, into this class action lawsuit. — PTI

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New York: New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has told US President-elect Donald Trump that he would not hold a post in the new administration, the transition team said on Friday. Giuliani, one of Trump's most prominent boosters during the campaign, had been touted as a possible Secretary of State or Director of National Intelligence, EFE news reported. The former mayor informed Trump on November 29 that he was removing his name from consideration for a job in the new government set to take office on January 20, the transition team said. IANS