US: TCS, Infosys VISA probe

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US: TCS, Infosys VISA probe


Just as we came across recent report of Indian workers replacing US workers, which has been discussed in the thread entitled “Indian Workers on H-1B replace Americans at Disney,” a probe has been initiated to investigate possible malpractices or abuse of the US H1B VISA programme, as reported in the article entitled “US to probe TCS, Infosys on visas.” NASSCOM has also spoken out about this issue in this article entitled “H-1B visa row: Nasscom sees attempts to portray Indian IT negatively.”


While professional malpractices are not unheard of with several Indian companies, the timing of this probe has encouraged speculation as to its real motivation. It might be too early to comment, because the investigations are still on.


However, will the negative publicity hurt India in the long run?
 

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How IT companies exploit H-1B visa loopholes
NYT News Service

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It hardly needs saying that immigration policy should not undermine Americans' jobs, wages or working conditions. The problem is that what some companies want -- cheap, exploitable, disposable labour -- is exactly what the system can be twisted into giving them.
The programme was created to allow companies to fill gaps in their workforce with specialized employees they cannot find in the United States. But the law has loopholes, and companies here and overseas ruthlessly exploit them. A huge industry has risen to meet labour demand in the information-technology sector, with the imported workers being employees of the outsourcing firms.
A mass influx of foreigners doing the jobs of the workers they displace is clearly not what the law intended. Congress surely did not want to give companies a more efficient means of slashing payroll costs while pushing more people to the curb. But despite common perceptions about the H-1B law, it does not require companies to recruit American workers before looking overseas.
Many of these good ideas were contained in a Senate bill to overhaul the immigration system. That bill died, killed by hard-liners in the House who objected to its provisions for unauthorized immigrants.
 

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I stayed in Omaha, Nebraska for 6 to 7 months, was working in an IT project assignment for our clinet Mutual of Omaha. The local American workers from [Mutual of Omaha] are so paranoid of losing their jobs [rightly so with the way some mis use the visa]. We have to abandon the project mid way with lack of co operation from the local IT people.
 

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