Walt Disney replaces 250 employees with Indians H1-B workers

According to reports, Walt Disney has replaced nearly 250 employees with Indians on H1-B visa. And now, a US Senator has demanded an investigation into the 'potential misuses' of the popular H1-B visa programme.

Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida has demanded the probe into the temporary visa programme for highly skilled immigrants. He asked for the probe following a report in The New York Times that claimed that technology employees at Walt Disney World in Orlando and other companies were replaced by immigrants and even had to train their replacements.

As per a report, Nelson asked Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to examine 'potential misuses' of the H-1B visa programme.

Nelson said in a letter that the programme was created in order to help fill vacancies when there were labor shortages and not to take away jobs from anyone. He also wrote that he was concerned that immigrants in the programme could be taken 'in less specialized positions'.

According to the report a former Disney worker said, "I just couldn't believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly. It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can't grasp it". Disney spokeswoman Kim Prunty said that over the past decade, Disney has created approximately 30,000 new jobs in the US.