Wayne-Based Toys "R" Us Employees Losing Jobs Abroad Due To Temporary Workers: New York Times Report

The woman was shadowed everywhere, even the ladies’ room. A young woman from India on a temporary visa sat with the 49-year-old accountant and learned the woman’s job. She took screenshots of her computer and detailed notes.

By June, workers from the outsourcing company Tata Consultancy Services, or TCS, created manuals on the jobs of 67 American workers, The New York Times reported. The TCS employees returned to India to train TCS staffers on how to perform those jobs there and the New Jersey employees were laid off.

Many of the New Jersey employees had been with Toys ”R” Us for more than a decade, the report states.

The layoffs, which are becoming more popular in the United States, are examples of how international outsourcing companies are using temporary visas, known as H-1B, to train workers and send jobs back to India, according to the report.

Toys “R” Us spokeswoman Kathleen Waugh said that the layoffs were part of “designing a streamlined, more efficient global organization to make it fit for growth” and that the outsourcing “resulted in significant cost savings.”

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