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H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pittance, feds say
San Jose Mercury ^ | May 1, 2018 | Ethan Baron

Posted on 05/02/2018 6:13:29 AM PDT by artichokegrower

A dozen Indian workers at an East Bay technology firm were promised salaries of up to $8,300 a month, but after the company brought them in under the controversial H-1B visa, they found themselves netting as little as $800 per month, the federal government alleged Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens
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To: artichokegrower

Sounds like they brought them in for OPT under their F visas then hired them on after obtaining H1B visas. Not an unheard of practice.


41 posted on 05/02/2018 7:35:21 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: NonValueAdded
See Optional Practical Training (OPT) for F-1 Students
42 posted on 05/02/2018 7:37:24 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: artichokegrower

The H1B - Kaku's favorite weapon

43 posted on 05/02/2018 7:54:13 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: artichokegrower

And the US worker they replace has their lives shatttered. I’ve gone through this twice and said goodbye to IT in 2003.


44 posted on 05/02/2018 7:58:01 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: DownInFlames

There are thousands of Americans getting IT jobs every month. We can’t find programmers, H1B or not.


45 posted on 05/02/2018 8:02:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: a fool in paradise

“loudwick — a data-analytics company whose clients include Apple, Cisco, Comcast, American Express, Bank of America, Safeway, Verizon and Visa....”

Data Analytics is really hot right now, salaries are off the chart. If they were Java programmers or something like that, I would agree with you.


46 posted on 05/02/2018 8:03:32 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: artichokegrower

Tell them to call tech support and talk to Apoo in India!


47 posted on 05/02/2018 8:11:08 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: CodeToad

“Kick out ALL the H-1B foreigners!”

That could mean the CEO might only get two yachts instead of three, we can’t have that!


48 posted on 05/02/2018 8:17:17 AM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: artichokegrower

These companies are selling out the citizens of this country for money.

These companies are the corporate version of Judas Iscariot


49 posted on 05/02/2018 8:42:55 AM PDT by bkopto
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There are thousands of Americans getting IT jobs every month. We can’t find programmers, H1B or not.

Maybe offer higher salaries?

50 posted on 05/02/2018 8:44:32 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: AppyPappy

“We can’t find programmers, H1B or not.”

Sure you can. Get rid of the morons looking at resumes and try again. Most HR bimbos and manager can’t discern qualifications. They look for 20 purple squirrel qualifications and weed out 99.999% of applications instead of understanding a person has skills and can adapt.


51 posted on 05/02/2018 9:58:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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Cloudwick Management: (Mani Chhabra Founder and CEO), (Mark Schreiber, General Manager), (Harshdeep Singh, Director of Operations, EMEA)

U.S. government data shows Cloudwick received 27 approvals for H-1B applications last year, and 55 in 2016.

Hmmm... That's 82 people in just two years. I wonder how many people work for this outfit? How long have they been in business and how many total H-1B visa holders do they employ?

52 posted on 05/02/2018 10:16:07 AM PDT by Desron13 (Inside every progressive is a petty tyrant straining to break free.)
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To: bkopto

That works in the corporate world.


53 posted on 05/02/2018 10:16:34 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: CodeToad

That can’t be right, a person has to have 72 years of experience with Windows 10 to be qualified.


54 posted on 05/02/2018 10:33:44 AM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: rednesss

Well, we all know people lie on their resumes! :)


55 posted on 05/02/2018 11:17:43 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: CodeToad

Considering the vast majority of what you need to know is learned on the job, unless you’re a brain surgeon, the reliance on padded resumes continues to amaze me. Bring people in, give them a real-world problem from your company and see how they do. That would work out far better than resume scanning.


56 posted on 05/02/2018 12:41:44 PM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: rednesss

It used to be engineers were hired with loosely reasonable backgrounds. Now there are 10-20 “must haves”. Indians lie for each other to get the jobs and keep out Americans.


57 posted on 05/02/2018 12:52:22 PM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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