FW: Computer programmer 'outsourced job to China'

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9806921/Computer-programmer-outsourced-job-to-China.html

The software developer, who is in his 40s, is said to have paid a Chinese firm a fifth of his six-figure salary to do his job for him while he spent his working days surfing the internet.


The tale emerged via a blog by an computer forensic investigator at Verizon Business, a US-based communications firm.


Andrew Valentine claimed that his company had been contacted by another US-based firm, whom he does not name, who feared their systems were being hacked after noticing that someone in Shenyang, China was accessing the system.


According to Mr Valentine it became apparent upon investigation that one of the company's employees had outsourced his own job, paying a Chinese firm approximately $50,000 (£31,000) from his salary to write computer programmes on his behalf.


The employee, whom Mr Valentine describes as "inoffensive and quiet someone you wouldn't look at twice in an elevator", would then spend his day browsing the internet, looking at sites such as YouTube, Reddit, eBay and Facebook before sending his superiors a daily status report and going home.

Mr Valentine continued: "Authentication was no problem. He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China so that the third-party contractor could login under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average nine-to-five work day."
He added: "Evidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about fifty grand annually."
Mr Valentine said that the employee, who no longer works for the company, had even been praised for 'his' work.
"The best part?" he continued. "Investigators had the opportunity to read through his performance reviews while working alongside HR.
"For the last several years in a row he received excellent remarks.
His code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion.
Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building."
A spokesman for Verizon Business confirmed that the story was true, but declined to provide further details.

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"For the last several years in a row he received excellent remarks.
His code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion.
Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building."

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ANZ wins pay fight against ProvencoCadmus staff




ANZ Bank has won an Employment Relations Authority dispute over $1.6 million with 114 former ProvencoCadmus staff.

The bank lost patience with the electronic payments company in August 2009 and tipped it into receivership seeking to recover $23.8 million.

ANZ appointed KordaMentha's Brendon Gibson and Michael Stiassny receivers on August 3, 2009 based on a general security agreement the bank held over the sharemarket listed electronic payments provider.

The latest receiver's report shows ANZ has recovered just $8.85 million with $14.95 million still outstanding and Gibson saying there'll be a "significant" shortfall.

However, the receivers appear likely to secure the $1.6 million in undisputed preferential employee claims after a ruling in their favour from Employment Relations Authority member Alastair Dumbleton.

KordaMentha's lawyer Tim Clarke argued the staff were employed solely by ProvencoCadmus Limited, which as a holding company, had no inventory or accounts receivable from which preferential creditor claims can be paid.

ProvencoCadmus' only major asset was shareholdings in subsidiary trading companies including Provenco Payments, Provenco Retail Automation, Cadmus Payment Solutions, and Provenco Technology.

The $1.6 million is comprised of wages, holiday pay and redundancy entitlements. Under the Receiverships Act and Companies Act employees are given preferential creditor status up to a specific amount each, which at the time of ProvencoCadmus' demise was $16,420.

KordaMentha has accepted that the amounts claimed are legitimate.

However, KordaMentha argued that before the receivership, the employees were employed solely by holding company ProvencoCadmus, whereas the staff themselves maintain they were employed by ProvencoCadmus and at least one of the subsidiary operating companies.

Thus the Employment Relations Authority was tasked with determining the identity of the employer or employers. In his ruling, Dumbleton sided with KordaMentha in deciding ProvencoCadmus was the sole employer, leaving ANZ, which earlier this month posted record annual profit of more than $1 billion, in line to pocket the $1.6 million.

The employees have 28 days in which to mull an appeal to the Employment Court, and are yet to decide.
In a high profile demise, ANZ pulled the plug on ProvencoCadmus after the company tried unsuccessfully to secure funding from its major shareholders Todd Capital and Navman founder Peter Maire.

At the time of the receivership ProvencoCadmus chairman Rick Christie blamed an unsustainable debt burden, sluggish investment and product markets, and a weaker-than-expected trading performance for the demise. The ProvencoCadmus group was created through the May 2008 merger of Provenco and Cadmus who both had ANZ as their bank.

In his ruling, Dumbleton says after the merger of Provenco and Cadmus staff were given a written employment agreement naming ProvencoCadmus solely as their intended employer. All bar one of the ex-employees in dispute with KordaMentha signed it.

At the time their jobs were terminated in 2009, none of them had a written agreement with Provenco Payments, Provenco Retail, Cadmus Payment Solutions or Provenco Technology.

However, payroll services were provided by Provenco Payments, which paid the staff their salary or wages and deducted income tax which was paid to the Inland Revenue Department. Provenco Payments' name was on the pay slips.

Representing the employees, barrister Philip Skelton argued staff were employed by both ProvencoCadmus and Provenco Payments, given the latter was a 100 per cent owned subsidiary of ProvencoCadmus and was the legal entity through which its business was undertaken.

"Provenco Payments was the company that had the customers, generated the revenue, for whom the employees provided their services, who paid the employees, who accounted for their tax, who paid their ACC levies etc," Skelton said.
"Provenco Payments was not simply an 'employer of record' it was the company that in fact carried on a multi-million dollar business. Contrast ProvencoCadmus - a hold company that did not trade in its own right."

ProvencoCadmus 'logically and legally' the sole employer

But Dumbleton says simply because it performed the payroll function, didn't mean Provenco Payments replaced ProvencoCadmus as the sole employer. He said the staff were "integrated into the unincorporated ProvencoCadmus Payment Solutions business unit rather than into any of the corporate entities the unit had oversight of."

"Although the Payment Solutions business unit was ProvencoCadmus' headquarters group, ProvencoCadmus logically and legally was the sole employer of those including the applicants who worked in or for the unit."

He noted chief financial officer Mathew Gibson, human resources general manager Steven Corrick, and chief executive officer Julian Beavis all had written employment agreements with ProvencoCadmus.

Gibson said KordaMentha had cash on hand to cover the dispute if it ultimately went against the receiver. And, with no further assets left to sell, whether ANZ got any more money back from the receivership, would depend on the dispute's ultimate outcome.

KordaMentha has long maintained that ANZ faces a "significant shortfall" on its loans to ProvencoCadmus



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masterq 发表于 2013-1-18 11:08
你條友走得快好世界,我們的官司輸了,一個月工資四十天年假食左蕉了~~

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masterq 发表于 2013-1-18 10:08
你條友走得快好世界,我們的官司輸了,一個月工資四十天年假食左蕉了~~

嗯。。。所以AL不要累积太多，这个我也是learnt it the hard way。。。

taomibaobao

好厉害，developer都可以outsource嗮D 也被中国做。。。

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masterq 发表于 2013-1-18 11:32
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taomibaobao 发表于 2013-1-18 11:37
好厉害，developer都可以outsource嗮D 也被中国做。。。

证明印度系outsourcing唔系大晒噶

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wp7 发表于 2013-1-18 13:26
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