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For the new political order taking shape in Washington, however, H-1Bs aren't quite welcome. Amid promises of sweeping changes to immigration policy, President-elect Donald Trump and his choice for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), have tabbed the program for a major overhaul, and might even scrap it altogether. In the House, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is on the same wavelength.
Trump has described H-1Bs as a "cheap labor program" subject to "widespread, rampant" abuse. Sessions co-sponsored legislation last year with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to effectively gut the program; Issa, a congressman with Trump's ear, released a statement Wednesday saying he was reintroducing similar legislation called the Protect and Grow American Jobs Act.
Sessions and Issa's legislation primarily targets large outsourcing companies, such as Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, that receive the vast majority of H-1B visas and use them to deploy workers to American companies seeking to cut costs. In 2015, the top 10 recipients of H-1B visas were outsourcing firms. As recently as 2013, the Justice Department, which Sessions stands to take over, settled with Infosys for $34 million in a visa fraud case.
If they were smart they'd change the program to maximize brain-drain from other countries by making H-1B a fast-track to citizenship instead of the 6+ year wait for a green-card that it now is. Bring in the best of them rather than the cheapest of them and let them compete on equal footing rather than the indentured servitude of the current H-1B program.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday January 11 2017, @03:02AM
I don't know why, but I feel the need to add this.
Think '95 or so. Had a female engineer from India who drove me nuts. Why? I'd give her something that would take 6 weeks to finish but she'd do it in 3. Consistently. And it was always right. This went on for about a year, I was always scrambling to fix my schedule to give her something to do. Only issue? She didn't understand the shower/BO issue. Finally manned up and told her about 3 months in. Things were good.
I really liked her, had I not been married at the time.....
One morning she came into my office. She'd had a car accident last night. She didn't have a license. Nor insurance. It was her roomate's car. She didn't tell her roomate she was borrowing the car.
I sent her to HR and never saw her again.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @03:28AM
One morning she came into my office. She'd had a car accident last night. She didn't have a license. Nor insurance. It was her roomate's car. She didn't tell her roomate she was borrowing the car.
I sent her to HR and never saw her again.
I read you, buddy. You got all the work you could out of that disposable worker, but one accident meant she suddenly became as worthless as a lame horse. It's such a shame you weren't allowed to shoot her yourself, when she needed to be put down, am I right?
I really liked her, had I not been married at the time.....
How badly do you miss the good old days when you could rape the slaves?
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:22AM
One morning she came into my office. She'd had a car accident last night. She didn't have a license. Nor insurance. It was her roomate's car. She didn't tell her roomate she was borrowing the car.
I sent her to HR and never saw her again.
Juts out of curiosity, why would she have to lose the job over this? Mandatory decision by HR due to criminal charges for ["borrowing" a car without asking (aka stealing it) | manslaughter (if the accident was bad enough) | driving without license], leading to a revocation of her H1-B? Or voluntary decision by HR to lay off a productive worker for things she did in her private life?
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(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:00AM
Odds are even if the client liked her, the outsourcing company did not want legal scrutiny and sent her home to avoid any problems.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @11:12PM
Well, the person obviously doesn't know but I'd hazard guess number one: If roommate didn't know car was being borrowed, the term for that is Grand Theft: Auto. Not the game. The felony. Person may have been arrested shortly afterwards and since she admitted the facts to boss, may have admitted the facts to HR. Even if you're not prosecuted, admitting you committed a felony is not exactly a way to stay gainfully employed. Person admits that to the police, it does not require the roommate to press charges to prosecute it as a felony, it only requires the facts of A) Roommate did not authorize car use, B) Car was taken and used. And damn skippy an employer may consider that you have willingly admitted to committing felonies as an immediately firable offense, employee's personal time or not, prosecuted offense or not. No employment lawyer will likely approach that with a ten foot pole even if you can pay them on retainer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:06PM
She'd had a car accident last night. She didn't have a license. Nor insurance. It was her roomate's car. She didn't tell her roomate she was borrowing the car.
How bad was that accident? If no other parties were hurt, couldn't she have come to an arrangement with her roommate?
Assuming you didn't blab to HR.