Can anyone do anything?
http://unionreview.com/more-h1b-visa-abuse-news
"he
estimated 500,000 people in the U.S. on H-1Bs are by definition
citizens of other nations, and they're usually beholden to employers
that can transfer them home at will."- BusinessWeek 1-31-08
H1B Visa AbuseDo as we say or get deportedFrom
the green building in which I recently left, where the entire
environmental controls will be monitored from the desk of another
country, to the tech support jobs that Dell led the way into the Indian
nation, the brighter of our countrymen, the Techie geeks, are under
attack. Not just from the threat of offshoring, but by the threat of
misuse of H1B Visa's by unscrupulous employers on our own shores. It is
called the PERM process and the following video made by Immigration
attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains just how to disqualify
qualified US Workers in favor of foreign workers, who by the way must
keep their job at all costs or be deported. Sounds like a new form of
slavery.
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I was listening to the testimony of
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and his points on requesting Congress for
increase in H1 B visa quotas. He was mentioning that H1 B employees
gets paid very high salary and most of the H1 B guys remain in US
through Green card. See companies like Microsoft do not abuse H1 B
visas program but there are many-2 big Indian companies are abusing
these programs and also pay very low salaries to the H1 B workers keep
them in a pathetic condition in USA.
Comapnies like Infosys,
Wipro, TCS get the job of Software Designer, Architecht, Data Base
Adminsitrator done from their employees but pay them the prevaling wage
of a junior programmar as they file there H1 in junior category and pay
them less salary. He only gets paid as per a Junior Programmer salary
say 60 K USD where as his day to day job responsibility should be
compensated by 100 K or more.
Indian H1 B employee is completely
on the mercy of his Indian employer as the moment H1 is cancelled the
person becomes illegal in USA so he continue to bear the abusive
practices from his employer. Hiring an American would need the IT
consulting to pay almost 30 K more per year for the same job
responsibilities. This way of paying Indian engineer less salary brings
down the overall salaries for Americans.
Most of the Indian IT
consulting do not file Green Card for the employees as they want
employee to be temporary for six years in USA and always be dependant
on the H1 sposnoring employer. Say if they file H1 B Visa for 1000
employees but only file 10 Green card out of those 1000 H1B guys.
Mr
Gates was asking to increase the quota for H1 B but most of the quota
would be abused by the Indian IT Companies. Only 20 % of the quota
would be used by the big American companies like Microsoft and they
might be
utilizing this H1 B program correctly but rest of the 80%
would be used by Indian IT consulting companies who would abuse the
emoloyees and bring down the entire salary level for American employees.
One
H1 B employee works in USA and be a Onsite coordinator but in his team
there are 5 engineers in India. So he becomes a coordinator and 5
people work in India. So one h1 B is replacing atleast 5-6 jobs in USA.
I
know a very close friend of mine who is on a H1 B program and get paid
only 65 K per year whereas the same job being done by an American is
getting paid about 90K per year. He cannot raise his voice as his
Indian employer would kick him back to India. So this way the abuse
continues and if the congress increase the H1 B quota the more Indian
employees would get exploited, IT salary would come down further and
jobs would continue to get shipped to India.
