Now some of the workers who were displaced are starting to speak out, despite severance agreements prohibiting them from criticising their former employers. But while corporate executives have been outspoken in defending their labour practices before Congress and the public, the American workers who lost jobs to global outsourcing companies have been largely silent. They handed in their badges and computer passwords, and turned over their work to a company based in India. Marco Pena was among about 150 technology workers who were laid off in April by Abbott Laboratories, a global health care conglomerate with headquarters here. Libertyville, June 12: American corporations are under new scrutiny from federal lawmakers after well-publicised episodes in which the companies laid off American workers and gave the jobs to foreigners on temporary visas.

Source: The Telegraph June 12, 2016 22:41 UTC