Posted on 09/29/2015 4:55:30 PM PDT by Theoria
When Congress designed temporary work visa programs, the idea was to bring in foreigners with specialized, hard-to-find skills who would help American companies grow, creating jobs to expand the economy. Now, though, some companies are bringing in workers on those visas to help move jobs out of the country.
For four weeks this spring, a young woman from India on a temporary visa sat elbow to elbow with an American accountant in a snug cubicle at the headquarters of Toys “R” Us here. The Indian woman, an employee of a giant outsourcing company in India hired by Toys “R” Us, studied and recorded the accountant’s every keystroke, taking screen shots of her computer and detailed notes on how she issued payments for toys sold in the company’s megastores.
“She just pulled up a chair in front of my computer,” said the accountant, 49, who had worked for the company for than 15 years. “She shadowed me everywhere, even to the ladies’ room.”
By late June, eight workers from the outsourcing company, Tata Consultancy Services, or TCS, had produced intricate manuals for the jobs of 67 people, mainly in accounting. They then returned to India to train TCS workers to take over and perform those jobs there. The Toys “R” Us employees in New Jersey, many of whom had been at the company more than a decade, were laid off.
A temporary visa program known as H-1B allows American employers to hire foreign professionals with college degrees and “highly specialized knowledge,” mainly in science and technology, to meet their needs for particular skills.
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Are there websites that are slut-shaming these damn companies pulling this crap?
If not, there oughta be. And where’s our “Free Press” on all of this?
It pisses me off.
My office is now 40% Indian.
If it’s legal, why would a company not want to do this to save money?
If you don’t want companies to do it, you have to make it illegal. It’s every company’s job to follow the law and maximize profits.
Like it or not, it’s a legal issue, not a moral issue. There isn’t any tenet of Christianity that says an Indian deserves a job less than an American.
I salute the NYT for running this story on the H-1B scam. This one of the few MSM outlets to break the code of silence on this huge shameful program. Again I salute the NYT.
What a dirty pool trick. It must be stopped. There are so many shenanigans being played when it comes to the usage of the H1-B visa.
and that’s how the left helped china become a dominate force in the world.
short sighted morons are the bane of this nation
But there *is* a tenet of basic decency and fairness that says an American citizen should get a particular job rather than an Indian citizen.
Yeah, start the draft up again. Make these bastards earn their place like the rest of us. Special lottery for them too, since they want first dibs on OUR jobs.
Actually, the law is intended to provide for employers to bring in foreign labor when Americans are not available to do the work. What’s happening here is that foreign labor is being brought in to replace existing American workers. Companies are violating the spirit and letter of the law.
Ted Cruz wants over 500% more of this cr@p in our country:
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=137
Ted and Heidi Cruz would like to thank the hard working foreign workers displacing Americans.
In 2013, Sen. Cruz proposed amendments to the “Gang of 8” bill that would strengthen border security, expand green card opportunities, increase high-skilled “H1B” visas, prevent illegal aliens from receiving welfare benefits, and enforce the rule of law.
There has been a major conspiracy since 2007 to screw over the American worker. I can’t believe the people in this You-tube video aren’t in jail. They most certainly would be if we still had a justice system.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3326108/posts?page=6
“A temporary visa program known as H-1B allows American employers to hire foreign professionals with college degrees and “highly specialized knowledge,” mainly in science and technology, to meet their needs for particular skills.”
That statement right there infuriates me as it should for all of you. For our country to have placed several men that walked on the moon and drove a car while there I might add is beyond belief, the only country on this planet to do so. and we’re being treated like we have lesser intelligence. KMA. That’s the new scenario, little Ahmed the bomb maker wannabe is smarter than us. Makes me with my small percentage of native American blood want to take scalps.
Thanks, I’m not an H1-B lover as you can imagine, lol.
Well, gee, maybe the ethics of it? Bad PR? “American made”?
Lots of reasons why. Don’t need to make it “illegal” Just get the word out and boycott the SOBs, nothing illegal or unChristian about that is there?
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