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The Molina workers said they trained Cognizant workers on the company's IT processes over time prior to the layoffs. They were told that the contractors were taking over all the production and their role would shift to new developments and technologies.

That explanation did little to lessen fears that they were being pushed aside. "There was a point where I felt we were just being written off," said David de Hilster, one of the laid-off IT professionals.

In the weeks leading up to the layoff, Molina employees began spending more and more time training Cognizant workers. The process became increasingly "urgent" and rushed, he said.

Another laid-off employee, Charles, said that "one person came into our department to learn all of our processes, which is impossible. We're multiple types of employees doing deployments, doing development work. No one person could possibly gather all that much knowledge in two weeks' time."
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219197/Outsourced_an d_fired_IT_workers_fight_back?taxonomyId=72

> Workers charge discrimination prompted 2010 Molina Healthcare IT layoff; file
suit against employer and its outsourcer

> On the day they were fired early last year, about 40 IT employees at Molina
Healthcare Inc. had been gathered in a conference room for what they were told
would be a planning meeting. At the same time, laptop computers were being
collected from the assembled workers' desks.

> During the meeting, Molina's then-CIO, Amir Desai, informed the workers that
they were being laid off for financial reasons, "not because of [their]
performance."

> The layoffs came amid rising tensions over a number of issues, including the
expanding role of an offshore IT contractor at Molina.

> The workers raised the concerns with Desai during the meeting.

> "I felt they were expecting us to be asking questions about Cobra and
unemployment and all that," said Bonita Shok, one of the laid-off IT employees.
"Instead, we were being quite confrontational about why they are laying us off
and keeping all these H-1B workers."

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