Outsourced and fired, IT workers fight back

[DBoon]

On the day they were fired early last year, about 40 IT employees at Molina Healthcare Inc. had been gathered in a conference room for what they were told would be a planning meeting. At the same time, laptop computers were being collected from the assembled workers' desks.

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"I have never experienced a group of employees who were so angry," said a human resources manager who was in the meeting to answer questions from employees about benefits. The HR manager asked not to be identified.

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The employees, who lost their jobs in January 2010, never got answers to their questions about the company's IT outsourcing strategy.

Instead, 18 of them filed a lawsuit in California state court earlier this year against Molina, its CIO at the time and its outsourcing contractor, Cognizant Technology Solutions.

The HR employee, who was later laid off as well, is a witness for the plaintiffs in the case.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/081611-outsourced-and-fired-it-workers-249780.html?page=1

[tsuki]

1. I don't think third world countries have HR employees.

[supernova]

2. I would love it if they won

but just having all this shitty corporate behavior aired out in court would be a service to all of us in IT.

supernova - former IT worker