Reply to: Intra-company transfers

[sasguru]

I for one would be extremely interested in participating. Like many in the IT field, I've seen this issue of "onshoring" at first hand, and seen a whole department offshored to India (and forced to train replacements) and then seen the Indians come to the UK on Intra-company visas for 6 months at a time in rotation to essentially replace the sacked UK workers at the same desk with the same job. But they're working without proper pay (expenses) and not paying tax, and bypassing normal health and safety and other rules by virtue of being guest workers from outside the EU. It's a scam to enable cheap slave labour to be imported at the expense of the UK worker and UK taxpayers, bypassing redundancy law and any supposed TUPE protection, and all to the supposed benefit of corporations, who lobby parliament for visa waivers at the expense of ordinary people.

What guarantees can you give that anonymity will be preserved if I contribute ? I for one would lose my job if I was exposed (I'm still at the same place, after taking a number of extensions to help fix the outsourcing mess).

For research, you could do worse than to look at the following link which, although old, is still valid : http://itvoice.wikispaces.com . You could also check out the various H1-B visa scandals in the US where it has attained an even greater prominence now the economy is tanking there. You should

There are so many unsavoury aspects to the world of onshoring and it is staggering that the press and people in this country have remained silent on the issue. At least the debate is more advanced in the US, as threads such as this one demonstrate :- http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.c...#comment-49335

P.

WHS.
It's really easy for any multinational with offices abroad to do this - and they're all at it.
Usually there's a whole floor of cheap techie Indians.

[David Lewis]

Thanks for the response

Hi,

I can't email you directly. I am trying to look at what seems to be a really important issue to the industry and you're the first person to offer a cogent assessment of what's happening. Give me a call - or drop me an email and I can talk things through. I have no desire to bump you into anything you're not happy with.

Thanks for your help. My numbers of 0161 244 3932 or 07710 013287

Best wishes
David Lewis
david.lewis@bbc.co.uk

[pinback]

Hi,

I am a producer with a Radio 4 programme called File on 4 and I am looking at intra-company transfers and how they impact on pay and jobs in the UK's IT sector. I am keen to talk to IT workers who have lost their jobs because an employer has brought staff into the UK from overseas.

Please call me on 07710 013287 or 0161 244 3932 or contact me by email at david.lewis@bbc.co.uk

I will explain what I am up to and I'd like to get an insight into your analysis of what is happening.

Best wishes
David Lewis

I for one would be extremely interested in participating. Like many in the IT field, I've seen this issue of "onshoring" at first hand, and seen a whole department offshored to India (and forced to train replacements) and then seen the Indians come to the UK on Intra-company visas for 6 months at a time in rotation to essentially replace the sacked UK workers at the same desk with the same job. But they're working without proper pay (expenses) and not paying tax, and bypassing normal health and safety and other rules by virtue of being guest workers from outside the EU. It's a scam to enable cheap slave labour to be imported at the expense of the UK worker and UK taxpayers, bypassing redundancy law and any supposed TUPE protection, and all to the supposed benefit of corporations, who lobby parliament for visa waivers at the expense of ordinary people.

What guarantees can you give that anonymity will be preserved if I contribute ? I for one would lose my job if I was exposed (I'm still at the same place, after taking a number of extensions to help fix the outsourcing mess).

For research, you could do worse than to look at the following link which, although old, is still valid : http://itvoice.wikispaces.com . You could also check out the various H1-B visa scandals in the US where it has attained an even greater prominence now the economy is tanking there. You should

There are so many unsavoury aspects to the world of onshoring and it is staggering that the press and people in this country have remained silent on the issue. At least the debate is more advanced in the US, as threads such as this one demonstrate :- http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.c...#comment-49335

P.

[oracleslave]

I have emailed him directly.
He is really looking to physically interview people who have been pushed out of a job by an Intra.

The link goes to a BBC addy and that is where the reply came from.

Thanks and ta ta again.

Good grief, that was a long break TLG.

WB

[The Lone Gunman]

I have emailed him directly.
He is really looking to physically interview people who have been pushed out of a job by an Intra.

The link goes to a BBC addy and that is where the reply came from.

Thanks and ta ta again.

[Platypus]

With this sort of response don't be surprised if R4 does a piece on what a bunch of disinterested moaning whiners contractors are

[Moscow Mule]

The email address is a BBC address

The David Lewis I know has many fingers in many pies...

[cojak]

I would like him to be treated seriously.

This is File on 4 we're talking about here, not You and Yours....

[BrilloPad]

You will get a response on this, some regulars on this forum do get quite vexed on this subject.

You just need to wait for them to read the post.

Do we have to read the post? Can we not just flame the thread starter and post bollux?

[cojak]

Hi,

I am a producer with a Radio 4 programme called File on 4 and I am looking at intra-company transfers and how they impact on pay and jobs in the UK's IT sector. I am keen to talk to IT workers who have lost their jobs because an employer has brought staff into the UK from overseas.

Please call me on 07710 013287 or 0161 244 3932 or contact me by email at david.lewis@bbc.co.uk

I will explain what I am up to and I'd like to get an insight into your analysis of what is happening.

Best wishes
David Lewis

You will get a response on this, some regulars on this forum do get quite vexed on this subject.

You just need to wait for them to read the post.

[DodgyAgent]

C'mon DA - if they did something about it - what would they have to moan about?

CM That is what I am beginning to think.

[cailin maith]

I am astonished that with all the whingeing that goes on about this practice and about the BBC none of you seem to be the slightest bit interested in doing anything about it.

C'mon DA - if they did something about it - what would they have to moan about?

[DodgyAgent]

The BBC doing a negative piece on immigration. What's wrong, realisation that we're about to get a change in management at the top perchance?

I am astonished that with all the whingeing that goes on about this practice and about the BBC none of you seem to be the slightest bit interested in doing anything about it.

[DodgyAgent]

David Lewis, owner of PMI Consult Ltd? Or somebody else?

The email address is a BBC address

[TheBigD]

David Lewis, owner of PMI Consult Ltd? Or somebody else?

If you google the telehone numbers, it returns several other posts on forums requesting similar types of research, so it looks pretty genuine...