Foreign worker

with cheaper immigrant workers brought in on H1-B (Foreign Worker) Visas. Furthermore, they made the laid off employees train the people who would be replacing them. Soon after, some of the affected employees filed a lawsuit against Disney, alleging that they colluded with an outsourcing firm to break the law by bringing in these replacement employees using the H1-B program, knowing that Americans would be displaced, while stating the contrary (Preston, 2016). This short-sighted attempt to save money, while appearing beneficial on paper, will end up costing considerably more in the long run. Lawsuits and potential monetary damages aside, the amount of institutional knowledge and experience possessed by nearly three hundred employees with an average of a decade on the job each is staggering, and all but impossible to effectively transfer within a short few months. Furthermore, the amount of bad press that Disney has received because of this action will cost them, both monetarily and in the form of lowered employee morale and customer goodwill, and will make it more difficult to attract and retain quality employees in other sectors of their company. In another example, Southern California Edison (SCE), California’s largest utility company recently laid off or caused to resign nearly 500 employees, while making them train their replacements in order to receive a severance package (Thibodeau, 2015). While SCE was able to cut costs by paying outsourced workers, they also lost a…

Having everyone and everything stacked up against you from education to housing, two aspects Fatou wants for herself but can’t obtain. She briefly talks about how Andrew has access to computers, with him “being an educated person, currently studying for a part-time business degree at the College of North West London. With his student card, he had been given free, twenty-four-hour access to the Internet” (0-10). In a way, she sees him having a better status than her, him being an example of what…

Many Americans are against illegal Mexican immigration claiming that Mexicans are taking the jobs that belong to them. According to Michael Clemens, author of "International Harvest: A Case Study of How Foreign Workers Help American Farms Grow Crops-and the Economy" only However Mexican migrants do not come to the United States ostensibly to take jobs and weaken the economy. In increasingly unequal economic contexts and feeling unprotected from physical violence, migrants, who would rather…

A co-worker has recently returned to work after having an accident from which she is still recovering. One of her legs was amputated at the age of 8, and she recently injured her amputated limb. She had surgery and returned to the back to work program. After a 15-year career and permanent full-time status, she has fully depleted her sick time and was placed in a term position. She is currently looking for answers if this decision by management can be contested. Throughout the book and in…

of the effects of the reforms on the Temporary foreign workers program, it is important to understand the program itself. The Temporary Foreign Workers program was established so as to facilitate the hiring of foreign workers on a temporary basis to jobs in Canada. It was meant to provide a platform for the hiring of foreign workers into the Canadian labor force to cover for the unavailability of Canadian and permanent residents. The program was an avenue for the employers in Canada to employ…

things, sometimes even at the cost of others. Take the example of foreign workers. Times have moved on. Society has changed. Singapore has become a more developed country. Then why are foreign workers still being subjected to such horrible working conditions? They are not any less human than us. We have families. So do they. We have to pay for many things. So do they. We have needs. So do they. We complain about everything. But they can’t. They suffer in silence. Time has come for them to know…

skills, education, or capital to be let into the country to immigrate or work. The solution, the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), a policy enacted by the government to allow employers to hire workers from outside the country. Although this policy was passed with good intentions today it is clear to see that employers have taken advantage of this policy for economic reasons…

Migrants are people who move from one place to another; mostly for work. However, before migrants can enter the country to work, they will need to be classified whether they are high-skilled or low- skilled. In this essay, I will argue that the classification between the Canadian policies toward differently skilled worker’ are quite distinct. The difference between high-skilled and low-skilled policies includes spousal restriction and permanent residency. While high-skilled workers tend to…

In the current age of globalization, the nature and characteristics of human resources has undergone many changes, in which labors are more active and flexible and freely in making decision about their employment. More and more people move from one country to another in the hope for better employment opportunities. Under this circumstances, labor migration associated to the tendency of global migration has played a particularly important role in the socio-economic development of many countries. …

After a long time working in the United States, Xu Bing decided to come back to China as vice president of The Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA, in 2008. At the same time, he was invited to create a commercial project for Beijing Central Business District, CBD. When he entered the construction site of this building, the animalistic hot temperature and rough skin in its interior enthralled Xu Bing’s attention immediately. The direct contrast of the migrant workers’ harsh working conditions and…