Train your own replacement or no severance, 70% of visa workers are from India. Corporations treat themselves as royalty, with the world as their servant. Favoring India as a China substitute. Trump should have an easy time negotiating with the vain, emotional tech overlords.
New evidence of widespread wage theft in the H-1B visa program Corporate document reveals how tech firms ignore the law and systematically rob migrant workers https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage-theft-in-the-h-1b-program What this report finds: Thousands of skilled migrants with H-1B visas working as subcontractors at well-known corporations like Disney, FedEx, Google, and others appear to have been underpaid by at least $95 million. Victims include not only the H-1B workers but also the U.S. workers who are either displaced or whose wages and working conditions degrade when employers are allowed to underpay skilled migrant workers with impunity. The workers in question were employed by HCL Technologies, an India-based IT staffing firm that earned $11 billion in revenue last year. HCL profits by placing workers on temporary H-1B work visas at many top companies. The H-1B statute requires that employers pay their H-1B workers no less than the actual wage paid to their similarly employed U.S. workers. But EPI analysis of an internal HCL document, released as part of a whistleblower lawsuit against the firm, shows that large-scale illegal underpayment of H-1B workers is a core part of the firm’s competitive strategy. Why it matters: This apparent blatant lawbreaking by one of the leading H-1B outsourcing companies should finally prompt action by the federal government to curb abuses of the H-1B program. Such abuses are likely widespread among H-1B employers because the Department of Labor (DOL) has done virtually nothing to ensure program integrity by enforcing the wage rules. More broadly, DOL props up the abusive outsourcing business model by treating contractor hires differently than direct hires when enforcing the wage and other provisions in the H-1B statute that are supposed to protect H-1B and U.S. workers. This outsourcing loophole allows firms like HCL and the big tech companies that use outsourcing firms to get around those provisions. Thanks to its failure to enforce the wage laws or close the outsourcing loophole, DOL is in effect subsidizing the offshoring of high-paying U.S. jobs in information technology that once served as a pathway to the middle class, including for workers of color. What we can do about it: The Department of Labor should launch a sweeping investigation into whether companies are systematically underpaying H-1B workers in violation of the law. If violations are found, penalties should be imposed that are significant enough to deter all H-1B employers from such behavior. DOL should also close the outsourcing loophole that supports the outsourcing business model by requiring both direct employers like HCL and the secondary employers that use H-1B staffing firms to attest that they will comply with H-1B wage rules. DOL and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should take additional measures to ensure the H-1B program achieves its purpose of filling genuine labor market gaps. Such measures include raising minimum wages to realistic market levels, allocating H-1B visas to workers with the highest skills and wages, and adopting a compliance system that ensures program accountability and integrity. Finally, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Division, in conjunction with DOL and DHS, should vigorously prosecute visa fraud under the False Claims Act, consistent with a recent federal court decision applying the False Claims Act to H-1B visa fraud. (More at above url)
the comic is wrong. It’s the four guys saying “I want to hire the cheapest people” Indians don’t try to hire other Indians. It’s not like WASP culture (high brow law firms) or French culture (think derivs desks at banks)
When you are fired or they dont want to renew yournvjsa, you are often immediately ushered out of the building to avoid stealing.company info or sabotage current business.... Also if you fire me..fuck you..train them yourself...can't withhold negotiated severence.
"Indians don’t try to hire other Indians." Having worked at multiple large tech companies, let me say you are completely incorrect about this. There is even an internal industry term for it inside sizeable tech companies -- "Indian Mafia".
No matter how MAGA debate ends, H-1B visas have an undeniable fraud problem Two cases at end of 2024 affirm long-held warnings that immigration and visa programs need more supervision, accountability. https://justthenews.com/accountabil...w-maga-debate-ends-h-1b-visas-have-undeniable
Bernie Sanders is exactly correct. H-1B Visas lock immigrants into a single employer, not allowing them to freely move to another employer to get higher wages. It is a form of indentured servitude -- which serves solely to depress salaries across the tech industry and enables employers to exploit workers. The primary reform the system needs is allowing people on visas to switch jobs -- allowing a free labor market. Bernie Sanders says Elon Musk is wrong about H-1B visas: 'Low-wage indentured servants' https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-elon-musk-wrong-reform-h1b-visa-2025-1 Bernie Sanders waded into an ongoing debate between Elon Musk and some on the right over H-1B visas. Musk and the tech right generally support the visas, but some in the MAGA base oppose them. Sanders argued that the system allows corporations to exploit workers and enrich themselves. Sen. Bernie Sanders is wading into the heated debate between Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the MAGA base over high-skilled immigration. In a statement released on Thursday, the Vermont independent and two-time Democratic presidential candidate said Musk is wrong about the H-1B visa, which is designed to bring high-skilled workers from abroad to work in the United States. Musk, Ramaswamy, and others on the "tech right" have argued that the system is necessary to compensate for a shortage of high-skilled workers in America, pitting them against more nationalist Republican voices who see the system as bringing unfair competition upon American workers. Sanders argued on Thursday that the system is used to exploit foreign workers while enriching corporations. "The main function of the H-1B visa program and other guest worker initiatives is not to hire 'the best and the brightest,' but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad," Sanders said, pointing to the fact that corporations have laid off American workers even as they've hired foreign workers through the H-1B system. "The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make." The Vermont senator called for a series of reforms to the system, including increasing guest worker fees for large corporations, raising the minimum wage for guest workers, and allowing them to easily switch jobs. "The widespread corporate abuse of the H-1B program must be ended," Sanders said. "It should never be cheaper for a corporation to hire a guest worker from overseas than an American worker." Trump has sided with Musk, saying that he supports the H-1B visa system. That's despite him signing an executive order halting the program in 2020. Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Sanders has previously signaled a willingness to work with the billionaire businessman on cutting defense spending via the "Department of Government Efficiency" initiative, though he told BI that it remains to be seen how serious Musk is about the issue.
The U.S. (in the modern era) is built on an open labor market where people can change employers at will. People don't really want to revert to the days of the British empire.