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Nielson gets millions job creation tax incentives, then lays off hundreds & outsources to India
 Crank the Rage-O-Meter(St Pete Times) Nielsen Co. announced 170 more layoffs at its Oldsmar facility Tuesday. This will bring the total number of reductions at the company to 402 since 2007. Nielsen is also planning a staff realignment in Dunedin that will lead to more layoffs there, too. In Oldsmar, Nielsen is outsourcing more work to India-based Tata Consultancy Services, company spokesman Gary Holmes said Tuesday. The work formerly done in Oldsmar will now be transferred to India. Although companies that hire outsourcing firms often try to limit the release of information about layoffs through employee nondisclosure agreements tied to severance and public statements, Nielsen was unable to do so in this case. That's because it received property tax breaks in 2001 to build a $100 million global technology center in Oldsmar. The tax breaks were pegged to the number of high-wage jobs -- those that paid at least $52,000 -- the company created. That forced Nielsen to disclose hiring details at that facility, effectively putting the employee count of the facility on the local political radar. Nielsen announced a 10-year outsourcing agreement valued at $1.2 billion with Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai.
From the Tata Contract there are further outrages - the H1-B are being used to REPLACE US Citizens - so that the H1B can be used as a virtual slavery device The Nielsen-Tata pact states 'there shall be no additional charge for overtime work', allows Nielsen to have unsatisfactory Tata (H1B) hires replaced within 4 weeks of starting with no charge for the original or re-performed work, gives Nielsen up to 6 man-weeks of free labor when a Tata (H1B) worker is replaced, and allows Nielsen to make 'any TCS Resource' (read H1B) essentially disappear with no more than 5 days notice if their presence 'is not in the best interests of Nielsen.' Tata was awarded the contract by Exec VP Michela Habib who has a history of outsourcing large numbers of jobs to Tata. He sent thousands of jobs overseas to Tata when he was at GE Medical Systems, and Citigrouop. During the Citibank outsourcing, Citibank's NAIT managers were given the proverbial handcuffs and told that they could not review the resumes of the incoming consultants and it was alleged that TATA managers themselves told Citi managers, "You have no choice. You take what we give you." They killed the US jobs $50K they promised, sent some overseas and are using H-1B to DIRECTLY REPLACE the US Workers IN THE US - the H1B are here taking the Americans jobs! KILL H-1B NOW! STOP IT! Its killing the US middle class. From multiple sources listed below TampaBay.com www.computerworld.com Lou Dobbs (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zjwv0sofytE) Posted by: OldSpook 2008-07-13 |
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