I know, I know, nobody uses checks and bank clearing is old school, but the principle remains the same.
Until you get your bits from bitcom, the game ain't over.
1973, Robert Ringer classic...
Posted on 03/21/2017 8:31:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“I actually thought we would get paid,’’ said Dinesh Khurana. “But this has lasted so long. To be very frank, I’ve lost hope.’’
When Dinesh Khurana came to California from India as a tech worker in 1995, he assumed the American system of employment had a basic underpinning of fairness.
It went this way: You did the work. You were paid for the job. Sure, there might be an occasional hiccup. But generally the check arrived. America was the land of the free, not a corruption-ridden place.
Even when he became a consultant — and had to fend for himself rather than depend on a regular paycheck — he found he didn’t worry too much about the money arriving.
The last few years have robbed him of that illusion. And while Khurana, a baldish man with a mustache and a megawatt-smile, can still shrug at his plight, it’s painful.
To be specific, it’s $42,258 of painful. That’s the amount that Khurana says he is owed for consulting work by an Illinois company called Quadrant 4 System Corp.
Nobody says that Khurana didn’t do the work. Nobody says his performance was unacceptable. But in suing to get paid, he’s come across a legal paradox worthy of “Catch 22.’’
He’s also learned a few things about his Illinois employers. Last November, the CFO and the CEO of Quadrant 4 System were charged with wire fraud and certifying false financial reports. Federal attorneys have noted that they are presumed innocent until convicted.
A Punjab native with a master’s degree from an Indian technology college, Khurana came to the U.S. on an H-1B visa, working first for Oracle and then Electronic Arts. He got a green card in 2000.
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You can easily rack that up in a week, week and a half. My usual consulting gigs i will go on a two week payment.
It’s in several places in the Bible to pay the worker for his work. It’s a serious matter.
What is your problem. He was an unwanted and unneeded H1B worker that then got a green card instead of going home. Took an American’s job. Kick him out. Let him sue his H1B scammers from India. It was them, not an American employer that ripped him off.
I know, I know, nobody uses checks and bank clearing is old school, but the principle remains the same.
Until you get your bits from bitcom, the game ain't over.
1973, Robert Ringer classic...
Try getting a court to recognize that. . .
NO **CONTRACT** NO MONEY!!
[mutter] I’m going to have to burn down the building and put strychnine in the guacamole... [/mutter]
I know. Just pointing out that it is more serious than other forms of not being just to the worker.
It has happened to me three times. Two of them were individuals, and I don’t work for individuals anymore. It must be a corporation with a reputation to worry about. One of them was a small business just closing up and the owner thought he could get away with not giving me my last paycheck, but I got it—I shamed him into it. Also I was starting work elsewhere in the same type of small business and word gets around, so he gave in.
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