Earlier this week, The New York Times published an exposé on Disney World's jobs, as over two hundred employees of the "Happiest Place on Earth" were not only fired, but also forced to train their replacements while already having been dismissed.
To make matters worse in a scenario that's already ethically dubious, the Disney World jobs were all taken off American citizens, who were then replaced by foreign new workers after Disney brought 250 people into the country through visas, something that has made certain government officials uncomfortable enough to begin pursuing an investigation as to what kind of visas these new Disney employees were entering the country with.
According to IJR Review, the issue began when 250 Disney World jobs were suddenly taken last October, as the large company used an outsourcing firm across the world (in India, to be more specific) to hire immigrants that would work for Disney with a temporary visa.
NDTV reports that these Disney World jobs were the basic ones in the park, as the 250 fired workers were the ones in charge of monitoring computers in nearby industrial buildings, as it was tech workers that got replaced by Indian highly skilled workers in the area, who were ultimately trained by the people they were replacing.
According to Economic Times, since the NYT exposé on Disney World jobs, Democrat Florida Senator Bill Nelson made a call last Thursday directed at the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the temporary visa program that allowed the company behind giants like Marvel and Disney Princesses to replace American workers with immigrants working on temporary visas.
The H-1B temporary work visa was created to "help fill jobs when there are labor shortages," wrote Nelson, as this type of entry allows highly skilled workers from abroad to take their own place in the work force due to extraordinary talent in computing areas, as the Disney World jobs differs greatly from this intended purpose.
