Posted on 02/10/2023 8:33:34 PM PST by KingofZion
When she lost her job at Google last month, Jingjing Tan started worrying about her dog, an energetic, 75-pound German shepherd.
As a foreign worker living in the U.S. on a temporary work visa, if she couldn’t find a job within 60 days, she feared she might have to return to her home country, China. In big Chinese cities, where tech jobs are, keeping large dogs as pets often isn’t allowed.
*** Layoffs have rippled across the tech industry, with more than 257,000 job cuts since last year.
*** While there is no reliable way to track how many workers on temporary visas have been laid off, those in the industry estimate that tens of thousands have been affected. Foreign-born workers, including green-card holders, naturalized citizens and those on temporary work visas, account for nearly one-quarter of all workers in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math, according to a 2019 estimate from the American Immigration Council, up from 16% in 2000.
If H1B workers can’t find new employment within a few weeks, or apply to transfer to another visa, they must leave the U.S. In other cases, immigration lawyers who specialize in employment law say, those laid off while traveling outside the U.S. now find themselves stuck outside of the country, with their work visa no longer valid for re-entry.
*** Companies aren’t allowed to consider national origin when determining whom to terminate, Ms. Alcorn says. “It’s at-will employment,” she says. “Anyone can quit, and anyone can be fired.”
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Oh well.......
It is why I dont have a pet, except an old cat. My personal situation is not stable enough to want to take the responsibility of a pet that I can’t care for.
Now they can go home.
I worked with a Schlumburger contractor from China and we used to give her a hard time about eating dogs
She was embarrassed what they do back in China
How could she not know that?
Good news.
Feel bad for the dog. Hope she’s on the next thing flying back to China.
Yeah, what’ll they do now, hire American workers?
There will be more. Ai is easier and cheaper to employ and it doesn’t require healthcare, breaks or time off.
Back to Asia where you all belong and don’t come back ever again.
>> the next thing flying back to China
I see what you did there. LOL
Let them go home to India...hopefully they've saved their salaries.
More good news, where is Mike Lee with his crying rag?
I’ve managed H1B employees before and it is an administrative nightmare and a drag on business. Deadlines, reports, costs, etc. You have to justify their compensation, and if you are not paying them the exorbitant rates that some stupid federal wage guide stipulates for their official job title, you are in violation and have to pay them back wages for the time worked - sometimes years - to make up the difference. No free market allowed.
One Indian engineer had to go back home for a required trip for his H1B status and got stuck there because of administrative problems - for MONTHS. It cost us dearly.
It is almost never worth it to hire them.
That of course, is politically correct rubbish.
When the layoff times come, managers get rid of anybody they don't like. That is largely the point of layoffs.
Most H1B employees are contracted through specialized staffing agencies. They are the first to go because they have no effective recourse. That is by design.
Blacks, Hispanics, Gays, and whatever other people belong to the protected classes of the year are a different problem. The managers have to carefully avoid any documented comments that suggest "bias" and the layoff numbers cannot look "disproportionate". Even so, if the managers really don't like somebody for any reason at all, they will be gone.
When the layoff numbers are big enough, none of that will matter, because everybody in the department will be gone, including the managers.
As for the older staff members - they will always be selected for layoff first. Laws about age discrimination do not matter in the slightest.
Been there, done that. Been on the receiving end too.
I have sympathy for the dog.
The spy go bye-bye.
She replaced an American. That American was aced out of a job by her. Maybe they too had a dog and had to give it up so they could find a job somewhere else.
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