Posted on 06/09/2008 8:35:51 AM PDT by Salena Zito
iGate isn't only 'villain' hiring foreign high-tech workers By Mark Houser TRIBUNE-REVIEW
A local high-tech company has put a Pittsburgh face on a national debate about hiring foreign workers. Computer consulting firm iGate Corp. of Findlay paid the Justice Department $45,000 in April to settle charges it discriminated against U.S. workers by posting online job ads seeking foreigners with special visas.
The fine for favoring holders of H-1B visas, which go primarily to computer and engineering specialists, is the highest yet, said Justice Department spokeswoman Jamie Hais.
Critics say cases such as iGate's are not the only problem with the visas, which are widely used by high-tech firms.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
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I know of several cell phone consulting companies that bring in as many H1Bs as they can, these jobs pay $60K and up and they do not even try to find Americans.
no kidding.
Not true. They try to find Americans.
It’s just the job descriptions and pay grades are such that any American who could be qualified is over or under qualified. Strangely enough, the job description exactly matches the H1-B’s skill set.
Or it’s a job that Americans have held at $100K, and they are only offering $60K. Strangely enough, they have trouble finding qualified American candidates to take the pay cut.
A company does not have to be an IT firm to hire foreigners over Americans.
Here at an east coast utility it is like Benneton commercial. The only white guys are gay.
Of course, bonuses are based on to an extent on diversity.
Check out President Bush’s latest Executive Order directing Federal contractors to verify that all of their employees are legal (it’s up on Drudge now.)
Don’t know about you, but it irritates the heck out of me that there is even a question about whether any of our tax dollars are going to pay illegal workers.
Where as many Federal contractor jobs that require some sort of clearance usually require employees to be U.S. citizens, there are a lot of government contractor jobs that can go to legal immigrants with permanent visas (green cards.) I’m not too happy about tax dollars going to pay non-U.S. citizens, when there are plenty of qualified U.S. citizens being passed over for those jobs.
That’s funny, I heard Red Chinese generals will command our armies for half the price of US officers, build our F-22 Raptor fighters at one tenth of the current contractor. Using your logic, we should lower the asking price so no American citizen will serve in our army and build our advanced equipment so the cheaper Red Chinese and Indian will get the job. GEEZ for the same DoD budget we can have five times the number of troops and ten times the number of equipment. I will call these visas M-1B’s (Mil VISA’s). Any globalist freepers like the idea????!!!
Don’t laugh.
We are buying “US built” critical defense items that contain Chinese integrated circuits.
It isn’t supposed to happen, but sub-sub-sub contractors have been known to buy chips on the open market, with the forged paperwork thoughtfully provided by the same people who copied the chip design...
A lousy 45K fine? That’s chump change. It probably doesn’t even cover the cell phone bills of the lawyers involved, let alone the cost of the investigation and trial.
No matter what party is in power they all think we’re stupid. I’ll bet both sides when out for drinks afterward and we’re yucking it up over the outcome. Talk about a Potemkin moment!
I’ll see what my Senators and congressman have to say about this kind of feeble judgement. I’m wanting frog marches and orange jumpsuits for this kind violation.
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If we are going to have immigrants here - legal or otherwise - highly-skilled laborers/technicians/engineers are the kind of people I’d want to have. They aren’t going to be a drain on the system, and, in fact, will probably be productive elements of American society.
Ha ha ha. $45,000? You can save that much with one H-1B worker alone.
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$45K is pocket change.
I don't mind a green card holder getting the jobs. They're here legally for whatever other reason, maybe they're the wife of a servicemember who got married overseas. They should be able to compete for employment. This is about H1B visas, people imported for the sole purpose of taking these jobs. The justification is that there aren't enough Americans to do the jobs, but obviously that's not the case -- it was all about cheap foreign labor to displace domestic labor.
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