https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/08/h-1b-outsourcing-giant-games-visa-system-to-discriminate-against-non-south-asians-in-hiring-lawsuit-claims/amp/ The firm applies for and receives many more H-1B visas than it needs, gaming the lottery-based system to snatch up as many of the hard-to-obtain visas as possible, according to the lawsuit by Gregory Handloser, a salesman who alleges HCL denied him employment five times because it favors Indians and other South Asians. โFor example, HCL is consistently one of the top-10 H-1B visa recipients in the U.S., and from 2015 to 2017, HCL received 10,432 new H-1B visas and 310 L-1 visas, far more positions than could actually exist given that HCL only employs approximately 12,000 individuals in the United States. โAll, or substantially all, of the individuals for whom HCL secures visas are South Asian. I heard Google has HCL
They make life hard for everyone. Should ban them for like 10 years. All deserving candidates would get H1B rather than those idiot bums in those companies.
So they come out clean in 11th year ๐ค
No. But that should teach them a good lesson about morals and ethics and why not to milk a system for self benefit.
They prefer hire people who could be pushed harder and cannot walkout. Those who turn a blind eye and let people get exploited to deliver more to them for cheap, are equally complicit. It's a business strategy for many companies, that contract these companies, and that is where the fingers should point too.
I believe these companies lobby a lot behind the scenes , and hence they exist and thrive. Collusion !
With whom is the more important question.
These companies with USCIS / DHS
Visa is multi layer system in which corporate America plays a part as well. Ban H1 B completely if USA is bitten by Patriotism bug and see how it works, blaming/banning outsourcing companies won't solve the problem completely.
Bring the salaries up to par with even 50% of FANG TCs and see what happens with those contracts. It's about cheaper workers who can be pushed to work harder. Nothing to do with patriotism, just bonuses and bottom lines.
Actually may not be at par, but the billing rate can be quite high. But I get your point, through various layers eventually what the employee gets in hand may be close to minimum wage on H1B. Itโs cheaper from employee perspective but not from the company outsourcing the job.
So a guy applies for a job, someone tells him ethnicity played a part in the hiring decision & he sues.... Wow, this just doesn't happen anywhere else in the world now, does it? Why's this news?
I can write better code, I have an MS, may be PhD & so I deserve that green card. How dare those low paid, second class fellow countrymen, bad code monkeys take them H1Bs & GCs!!
Exactly! This is not a social service. You need to be deserving for an H1B. Read what it stands for.
This company sounds just as bad as People Tech, a government contractor that violated federal employment law. https://qz.com/india/1390239/h-1b-visa-abuse-people-tech-group-guilty-of-underpaying-employees/
Should ban all the outsourcing companies - TCS, HCL, INFOSYS, CTS , for h1b and also stop the green card manager route for L1 visas
You missed Capgemini!
Wipro ๐