Some American employees are basically forced to train their foreign replacements.
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I’ve heard, and read, that before. That just doesn’t make sense. How do you force an employee who is going to be let go to train his foreign replacement?
You get to stay employed a bit longer, possibly with a small monetary "sweetner" versus being shown the door (also described in the main article at source).
By dangling a severance package (often based on years of service); financial institutions were doing this as they prepared to abandon NYC (leading to the unemployed American workers known as Occupy Wall Street). The NYC metro area lost a lot of good jobs, and they’re never coming back (the foreign workers weren’t staying here, but going back to Asia with the jobs).
I’ve heard, and read, that before. That just doesn’t make sense. How do you force an employee who is going to be let go to train his foreign replacement?
If you read the article, it does go into detail and explains it clearly...
I am guessing considerable money could be lost if the US worker refuses to train the H-1B visa holder with a “positive attitude”
one quote:
He and hundreds of his fellow “Cast Members” were informed last October they were being replaced by a foreign work force, and they could either stick around for 90 days and train their replacements — with a good attitude — or leave immediately and forego their severance packages.
Three ways.
(1) Large corporations offer a generous severance package. 18 months of full pay and full benefits is not uncommon for someone with 10 years at the company. Plus, they might pay tuition for new training. They might offer office space while you job search. And almost all companies offer a 12 month contract with a professional job search firm.
(2) Job recommendation - a future employer is legally allowed to request four items of information from a past employer. The dates of your employment. Job title. Pay. Eligible for re-hire? If you fail to train your replacement, your current employer will tell all future employers you are NOT eligible re-hire. That's a huge black mark on your record, and your current employer has NO legal obligation to explain why you are not eligible.
(3) You must sign a full non-disclosure agreement before you receive your severance package and your eligibility for re-hire. If you break that agreement, they will sue to recover all money from the severance package, and you will instantly become NOT eligible for re-hire.
“How do you force an employee who is going to be let go to train his foreign replacement?”
You need to get out more if you don’t know the ways corporations can control people, whether in grunt jobs or executive positions. While working in HR for for several years, I’d go home sick — literally — some days after watching what had gone on in the Director’s office. It was shameful.