Posted on 04/12/2015 8:29:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Yeah like this is anything new!
““A number of U.S. employers, including some large, well-known, publicly-traded corporations, have reportedly laid off thousands of American workers and replaced them with H-1B visa holders,” the senators wrote. …”
And I bet one of them was HP....
Certainly isn’t. And as for the senators’ efforts having teeth? No faith in that. The Uniparty seems to want insurrection.
Took em long enough.
Here we go again. Another USELESS AND NON-PRODUCTIVE investigation by Congress.
Awwwwwwww. Like anything is going to be done. Riiiigbt.
This would constitute fraud.
In order to request an H-1B visa for a foreign worker, an employer needs to certify that there is a lack of qualified American workers available to do the job function , hence the need to look towards foreign labor.
To hire foreign workers on a H-1B visa in order to fire existing existing American workers is not the intent of the program.
Took em long enough.
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It’s election time coming up. Smoke and mirrors.
How long did it take for them to get to this?
Google and Facebook do this routinely. Zuckerberg brags all the time about H1B visas.
This has been going on for 30 years or more.
One thing I don’t understand...
How are they FORCED to train their replacements?
Were they chained to their workstations and flogged if they did not?
Does the 13th Amendment not apply to people in tech jobs?
Maybe they were coerced into doing it, with the promise of a couple more paychecks and a good letter letter of recommendation, but if they were FORCED, then the nation is even further gone than I thought it was.
Forced as in fired without severance package if they did not train their replacement. Carrot and stick approach. Regardless, it still constitutes fraud.
I am of the opinion that such intentional fraud should qualify for 3x damages. The damage should be assessed at the number of years the employee has worked at the company, times highest annual salary (w2), times 3.
Well,,,, I wouldn’t train a replacement! I’d do something to get fired.
Refuse to train your replacement. You are fired. I have heard the stories second hand..
Nothing will come of this. some chest pounding, photo ops and maybe a token vote or two..
But it’ll stop there.
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another probe? what is the point? it’s not like republicans have the balls to do anything about anything. pussies!
They don’t have the intent. It truly is kabuki theater.
Most American workers aren't worth the powder to blow them to hell, especially those under 40.
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