The IEEE-USA plans to tell its members to complain to the U.S. Department of Justice if foreign workers have replaced them. In doing so, the engineering group, which has some 200,000 members, is attempting to open up a new front over H-1B-enabled job displacement.

The association is being prompted, indirectly, by a recent Department of Justice (DOJ) letter that raises the possibility that the offshore outsourcing business model, which relies heavily on foreign workers using temporary visas, discriminates against U.S. citizens. Further, the U.S. worker may be required, as a condition of severance, to train his or her replacement.

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