Nothing could be worse than losing your job, except maybe being required to train your replacement. That is what happened in the Magical Kingdom when cheaper H-1B workers from an India outsourcing firm replaced about 250 U.S. employees at the end of January this year.

Questions:
1. What explanation did Disney executives give for this move?
2. Why are these layoffs at Disney and other companies raising new questions about H-1B visas?
3. Discuss the costs and benefits of the H-1B program as a continuing business model.
4. What do you think Congress should do to improve the federal guidelines of the H-1B program?

Source:
Preston, J. (2015) Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. The New York Times, June 3 (Retrievable online at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html?
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