My friend in Austin works for an software IT company. They have MANY visa employees. The company works employees as many as 14 hours a day, and often 7 days a week -— they are on “salary” so hours don’t matter. My friend says they can do it because the visa holders are afraid of losing their jobs and getting deported. The Americans know that if they don’t go along they will be replaced by visa workers, because the company can pay visa workers less. It seems that this is common practice in the software IT industry in that small “blue spot” called Austin.
The company just got sold, and the new company has already announced that there will be no days off or vacation time starting 1 Jan 2016. I guess that means the employees will be working 365 days next year???
I think this is slave labor, and should be criminal. If the visas are allowing this kind of employee exploitation, then I think the whole visa program needs to go away completely.
Just wow.
The abuses you cite are a violation of several dozen labor laws. Why is no one bringing suit?
San Antonio is not far down the road. A friend who works in IT there says finding & keeping good people is difficult. Wages are climbing because of it. Your buddy might want to consider relocating.