I am in the industry and have seen this scam played out over and over again by tech firms.
You want to operate in the US, you have to hire American workers. If not, go to India or China.
(I bet none of them will move to India or China, just like our liberals threatened with Trump won)
This has NOTHING to do with talent not available in the US. It has all to do with US companies wanting cheap labor and not wanting to help contribute to the US economy.
Trump should abolish H1B completely and institute a new program. For the next 3-4 years we don't need foreign workers at all. After that, pick only the best with stringent controls. Everyone and their moms and dads now come in as "IT workers". I have worked with idiots who called themselves "system administrators" and had never seen an admin console in their lives.
Insiders Tell How IT Giant Favored Indian H-1B Workers Over US Employees
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-cognizant-h1b-visas-discriminates-us-workers/
You want to operate in the US, you have to hire American workers. If not, go to India or China.
(I bet none of them will move to India or China, just like our liberals threatened with Trump won)
This has NOTHING to do with talent not available in the US. It has all to do with US companies wanting cheap labor and not wanting to help contribute to the US economy.
Trump should abolish H1B completely and institute a new program. For the next 3-4 years we don't need foreign workers at all. After that, pick only the best with stringent controls. Everyone and their moms and dads now come in as "IT workers". I have worked with idiots who called themselves "system administrators" and had never seen an admin console in their lives.
Insiders Tell How IT Giant Favored Indian H-1B Workers Over US Employees
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-cognizant-h1b-visas-discriminates-us-workers/
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By Eric Fan Coulter Jones Graphics by Kyle Kim December 9, 2024
Six months into her job, Latreecia Folkes had launched a new project and received a letter of praise from her supervisor. And then, she says, she was told to train her replacement on the project, a worker from India. She balked at that but was replaced anyway.
Over the next two years, Folkes said, she was repeatedly denied opportunities for advancement as a project manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., one of the world's largest information-technology outsourcing firms. She was offered chances to apply for roles that required her to relocate, but she couldn't because her mother was ill. Over time, her relationship with the company grew strained, and Folkes said she knows why.
"I definitely knew it was because of me being an American, not being Indian, and also because I was Black," she said in an interview. Folkes filed an internal discrimination complaint in 2017, three days before she was fired.
In October, a jury in a federal class-action lawsuit returned a verdict that found Cognizant intentionally discriminated against more than 2,000 non-Indian employees between 2013 and 2022. The verdict, which echoed a previously undisclosed finding from a 2020 US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation, centered on discrimination claims based on race and national origin. Cognizant, based in Teaneck, New Jersey, was found to have preferred workers from India, most of whom joined the firm's US workforce of about 32,000 using skilled-worker visas called H-1Bs.
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The case is part of a wave of recent discrimination claims against IT outsourcing companies that underscore growing concerns that these firms have exploited a broken employment-visa system to secure a cheaper, more malleable workforce. In the process, US workers say they've been disadvantaged. The industry, which provides computer services to other companies, makes extensive use of H-1Bs; over the past decade and a half, no employer has obtained more of them than Cognizant, federal records show.
Cognizant spokesman Jeff DeMarrais said the company plans to appeal the verdict and disagrees with the EEOC finding. "Cognizant provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and does not tolerate discrimination in any form," he said. He also said the company has sought fewer new visas over the past several years and said any apparent disparities in its hiring stem from a shortage of US tech workers. "Like many consulting firms and other technology companies in the US, Cognizant utilizes the H-1B visa program to fill positions it cannot fill with available US workers," DeMarrais wrote in one of several emailed responses to questions from Bloomberg News.
Indeed, the H-1B program was designed to help US employers find specialized talent. But a decade's worth of records from the US Department of Labor shows that outsourcing companies, including Cognizant, have used the visas mostly to fill lower-level positions, such as IT system analysts and administrators. Fewer than 20% of the 6,400 visa holders Cognizant has sponsored since 2020 had a master's degree or higher, according to data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. At companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., that figure is about 60%.
