Rubio, Jeb Silent On Disney Layoffs As Dem Demands Investigation

The Daily Caller reports:

After reports that Disney fired hundreds of American tech workers and forced them to train their foreign replacements, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson asked the Department of Homeland Security to investigate Disney, but his fellow Floridians, former Gov. Jeb Bush and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, have not commented.

Hundreds of Disney tech employees, many highly regarded and experienced, were informed last October they were being replaced by a foreign work force, and they could either stick around through January and train their replacements, or they could leave immediately and forego their severance packages.


The contracting firm Disney hired relies heavily on foreign workers brought into the country on temporary work permits known as H-1bs, which are intended to allow companies to bring high-skilled workers for jobs American workers can’t or won’t fill.

But at least in this case, many of those workers were far younger and less experienced than the American workers they replaced. One of the fired tech workers who experienced the office takeover told The Daily Caller News Foundation some of them admitted they had been flown into the country just weeks before starting at Disney.

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