Posted on 09/14/2015 10:14:51 AM PDT by setha
Wright State University sponsored 19 foreign workers who came to the United States not to attend college but to work at an area information technology staffing company that paid the workers less than what local graduates typically make for similar IT work.
The workers were brought here under H-1B or work visas that require companies, agencies and schools to have an employer-employee relationship with the worker. But an I-Team investigation found that the local company that contracted with Wright State for the workers, Web Yoga, told Wright State who to hire and when their employment ended.
(Excerpt) Read more at mydaytondailynews.com ...
Fraud, not a loophole.
Their words, not mine. The university was used to get exemptions for WebYoga’s use. In addition, the suspended officials were involved with both WSU and WebYoga, creating a conflict of interest.
The silver lining is that this is a rare case of H1-b fraud being caught and punished.
Rather ironic they were creating IT graduates but hiring foreign workers under the philosophy of “can’t find IT graduates”.
Serves them right for not hiring Americans.
It would seem that the ability of a college or university to hire H1B workers outside the quotas, and pay them less than the average wage, would be a tempting target. All you have to do is get effective control over some minor-league institution, and you have a license to print money.
I would assume Web Yoga was probably charging $500-600 a day for the guys who got $40K a year.
H-1B
They have herpes?
So what does Wright State tell their IT majors about career prospects?
Any immigration crime should be taken seriously.
If these "officials" had groped women in the office, or kissed them when not wanted, "suspension" would not be in the headline.
Treat them as if they groped women.
University of Dayton is a CATHOLIC school.
Yeeeesh, guys, is THIS the moral example we are setting?
Woops, sorry, Wright State is a state university.
Had the wrong Dayton school there.
I can only imagine that the career counseling department and career fair discussions will get interesting.
I'm still looking despite having good qualities relating to prior experience, references, and academic performance as well as having good connections to the local IT/information security community. It's enough to get initial interviews, but not enough to land the job.
Yup.
My unsolicited $0.02? No way that I'd work IT in a larger company. You're just waiting for the next round of managers who haven't tried (and failed at) outsourcing to come through. Siloed workers - IT people who only perform a single task - are outsource-able. Successfully? Well, that depends on the definition of "successful".
A Decent Living can still be made at smaller companies, where IT people typically wear several different hats. You may work harder than you would at a big IT shop, but you have the ability to make your own job security.
Or, go into consulting. You need to be good enough to justify your salary, though. And it's hard to compete with H1B's who'll gladly cut your throat for 30c on the dollar. Tough to compete with people who live four or five to an apartment, who work stupid long hours with little complaint, and who can get by on 1/3 your salary. About the only way to do it is via improved competency and better communications.
My experience is that they don't care where you live, so long as there's an airport you can get to, and you have broadband at your house.
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