Tech companies are complaining about
Congress not authorizing more H-1B immigrants while American employees are layed off.
Southern California Edison lays
off 500 IT employees and then replaces them with lower-paid workers
from overseas. The pay difference: US employees = $100,000 a year and
H-1B employees = $65,000 to $75,000 a year. Ron Hira, Howard
University professor, author of “Outsourcing America": stated:
To add insult to injury, SCE forced its American workers to train their H-1B replacements as a condition of receiving their severance packages.
Last
year, Microsoft announced layoff of 18,000 people while at the same
time lobbying Congress for more guest worker visas. The same story
goes for Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. Schmidt boasted that
thousands of American applicants are rejected while he complains that
there are not enough H-1B applicants allowed by Congress.
It's
all about cheap labor.
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