How is it evil to protect one's own self interest? Cognizant did all the work to get the contract. This is similar to a non-compete. If the coworkers are great, they will be great in another environment as well, and H1B work auths are portable.
Yeah, who cares what the employee/person wants, or where they want to work? They belong to Cognizant to decide where they will work, for whom, apparently.
You've basically highlighted one of the biggest problems with H1B, the potential for what effectively amounts to indentured servitude.
Sorry you're not making any sense. H1B is at-will employment and is portable.
Any consulting company will want to protect their investments from being poached and it has nothing to do with the work auth status of their employees.
Yeah, I am in no denial about the desire of TCS etc al to protect their investment. I know how much they're hurting.
Which is why they're doing the right thing by almost never agreeing to buy out clauses in their contract, which are really only their to provide an illusion of flexibility. This prevents "poaching" (hint : when you pay a fingers fee it cases to be passing) and hey, if your servant, I mean employee finds some other employer to go work for you can always fire them and institute revocation proceedings with US IS. That won't have a chilling effect at all (or as you CALL, "protecting your investment"). And I'm sure it's only a coincidence that on many occasions the Big Three have been accused of sharing blacklists of employees, too?
