https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage-theft-in-the-h-1b-program/ What this report finds: Thousands of skilled migrants with H-1B visas working as subcontractors at well-known corporations like Disney, FedEx, Google, and others appear to have been underpaid by at least $95 million. Victims include not only the H-1B workers but also the U.S. workers who are either displaced or whose wages and working conditions degrade when employers are allowed to underpay skilled migrant workers with impunity. The workers in question were employed by HCL Technologies, an India-based IT staffing firm that earned $11 billion in revenue last year. HCL profits by placing workers on temporary H-1B work visas at many top companies. The H-1B statute requires that employers pay their H-1B workers no less than the actual wage paid to their similarly employed U.S. workers. But EPI analysis of an internal HCL document, released as part of a whistleblower lawsuit against the firm, shows that large-scale illegal underpayment of H-1B workers is a core part of the firmās competitive strategy. Why it matters: This apparent blatant lawbreaking by one of the leading H-1B outsourcing companies should finally prompt action by the federal government to curb abuses of the H-1B program. Such abuses are likely widespread among H-1B employers because the Department of Labor (DOL) has done virtually nothing to ensure program integrity by enforcing the wage rules. More broadly, DOL props up the abusive outsourcing business model by treating contractor hires differently than direct hires when enforcing the wage and other provisions in the H-1B statute that are supposed to protect H-1B and U.S. workers. This outsourcing loophole allows firms like HCL and the big tech companies that use outsourcing firms to get around those provisions. Thanks to its failure to enforce the wage laws or close the outsourcing loophole, DOL is in effect subsidizing the offshoring of high-paying U.S. jobs in information technology that once served as a pathway to the middle class, including for workers of color. What we can do about it: The Department of Labor should launch a sweeping investigation into whether companies are systematically underpaying H-1B workers in violation of the law. If violations are found, penalties should be imposed that are significant enough to deter all H-1B employers from such behavior. DOL should also close the outsourcing loophole that supports the outsourcing business model by requiring both direct employers like HCL and the secondary employers that use H-1B staffing firms to attest that they will comply with H-1B wage rules. DOL and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should take additional measures to ensure the H-1B program achieves its purpose of filling genuine labor market gaps. Such measures include raising minimum wages to realistic market levels, allocating H-1B visas to workers with the highest skills and wages, and adopting a compliance system that ensures program accountability and integrity. Finally, the Department of Justiceās (DOJ) Civil Division, in conjunction with DOL and DHS, should vigorously prosecute visa fraud under the False Claims Act, consistent with a recent federal court decision applying the False Claims Act to H-1B visa fraud.
I donāt get why having a masters from USA isnāt a requirement for h1b, takes away the witch from the equation
What about FAANG employees who want to emigrate? You canāt expect them to be on L1 forever
Why is FAANG special? Most FAANG employees have lesser impact on their companies than employees from small & mid sized firms.
WITCH got tons of money to spend on lobbies and lawyers. you can't do anything to oppose. It is a win win, get cheap labor and give them i140 and they will work on any rate. That's why wage based H1b got revoked
NASSCOM is crazy powerful. I couldnāt believe Brandon cancelled the wage based H1B proposal that Trump (of all people) proposed. Now we have a shit low bar to enter the lottery (resulting in 487k applicants) AND abuse by the outsourcing companies. What a shitshow.
Was there another lottery this year ? 487k applicants š±
What is WITCH?
Walmart IBM Tiktok China Hyatt
Wipro Infosys TCS Cognizant HCL Not that non-WITCH which operate out of India are not guilty, they are all birds of same feather.. thieves not caught stealing. Or may be the rest don't abuse as much.
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REALLY? I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!!WHO WOULD HAVW THOUGHT?
it ruins the system for everyone. Indians should be the first in line to fight this crap because it affects them the most
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Fucking unskilled workers POS gonna cause me my career
If two WITCHES would watch two watches, which WITCH would watch which watch?
No shit! Stop issuing h1b to witch