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H-1B worker in San Jose forced to pay own salary, threatened with deportation: lawsuit
San Jose Mercury ^ | December 19, 2018 | Ethan Baron

Posted on 12/19/2018 6:07:18 PM PST by artichokegrower

An Indian staffing firm and its U.S. subsidiary forced an Indian information-technology worker in San Jose to pay his own salary, and threatened him with revocation of his H-1B visa and deportation if he did not comply, a new lawsuit alleged.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; h1b
On top of having to compensate himself for his work, Mahammad — who worked in San Jose and Illinois for the companies for three years from 2015 to June 2018 until he was fired — also had to pay $2,000 in fees for his H-1B visa and other federal paperwork that by law is to be paid by employers, the lawsuit claimed.


Slavery right in Nancy Pelosi's backyard. She's too stupid to recognize it.

1 posted on 12/19/2018 6:07:18 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower
"Mahammad"

Can we get a SpelChk on that name?

2 posted on 12/19/2018 6:08:35 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: artichokegrower

You mean Lofgren’s backyard. Lofgren won’t do a thing about this.


3 posted on 12/19/2018 6:12:05 PM PST by bobcat62
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To: Paladin2

LOL


4 posted on 12/19/2018 6:12:06 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (WINNING! !!)
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To: artichokegrower

But... they’re paid prevailing wage, no?


5 posted on 12/19/2018 6:13:27 PM PST by bobcat62
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To: Paladin2

he’s probably hindu, not muslim


6 posted on 12/19/2018 6:18:23 PM PST by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: artichokegrower

how do you pay YOURSELF?


7 posted on 12/19/2018 6:18:51 PM PST by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: artichokegrower

Bringing back “indentured servitude”?


8 posted on 12/19/2018 6:19:47 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: artichokegrower

There’s got to be more to the story.

This was Infosys - the behemoth in the field - not some little fly by night.

Maybe the guy kept racking up penalties and fines under his contract, so that he ended up offsetting his whole pay.

He ended up fired, so there was probably some misconduct or performance problem.


9 posted on 12/19/2018 6:20:00 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: artichokegrower

The H1-B program has become too corrupted to keep going. Needs to be ended. My former company purged almost every single American citizen in our IT department and replaced them with folks from these Indian owned body shops. That’s not what the program was intended for. END IT.


10 posted on 12/19/2018 6:21:30 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: BeauBo

Fraud in the H-1B program? Never.


11 posted on 12/19/2018 6:23:22 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: SendShaqtoIraq

“how do you pay YOURSELF?”

Does he have to pay income tax on those paychecks?


12 posted on 12/19/2018 6:26:35 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: artichokegrower

Recognize it? More like she got a cut!


13 posted on 12/19/2018 6:29:10 PM PST by snuffy smiff
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To: artichokegrower

Kickbacks to your manager(s) is standard practice at Indian body-shops.

Make $100K on paper, kickback $70K to your boss or his designated “charity” back home.


14 posted on 12/19/2018 6:33:52 PM PST by 13foxtrot
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To: SendShaqtoIraq

Kind of like if the cotton picking employees of those Plantation corporations we’re given Casey fishing salary to cover be guaranteed available accommodations, Room & Board living expenses, training from there contract. How very Democrat of them


15 posted on 12/19/2018 7:24:02 PM PST by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - rever.)
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To: StolarStorm

Exactly.

It needs to be stopped immediately.


16 posted on 12/19/2018 7:45:54 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare to survive.)
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To: SendShaqtoIraq

17 posted on 12/19/2018 7:48:39 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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