Bitmicro in Fremont fined for paying workers less than $2 an hour

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 3, 2016 | Wendy Lee

[artichokegrower]

Fremont tech firm Bitmicro Networks Inc. has agreed to pay about $161,268 in back wages to engineers from the Philippines after illegally paying them below the minimum wage.

The agreement, detailed in a document filed Tuesday with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was the result of a federal Department of Labor investigation that found Bitmicro had been paying some workers $1.66 an hour. The legal federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. (California’s minimum wage is higher.)

[artichokegrower]

So the American worker is supposed to compete with the H1-B program where workers are paid $1.66 per hour. Immigration reform my @ss.

[headstamp 2]

That company needs to be put out of business. Absolutely disgraceful.

[ConservativeMind]

Ted Cruz will keep pushing for 500% more each year to “help us.”

[Rashputin]

But the H1-B Visa program isn't a scam to drive down wages!

The companies paying the full minimum wage are just desperate for skilled workers ! /sarc <---- for those who need it

[tumblindice]

"A buck sixtysix a hour? I'll be there!" Tom Joad

[gaijin]

“Americans won’t do these jobs AT THAT PAY-LEVEL”

they allllways truncate the last part.

[gaijin]

http://www.bitmicro.com/contact-us/

Nice, juicy comment box, there.

[SaveFerris]

Gee, the Cheap Labor Express tells us this kind of thing doesn’t happen.

[terycarl]

How on Earth did they force these people to work for them?????

[SaraJohnson]

That is so sick.