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.
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Slavery right in Nancy Pelosi's backyard. She's too stupid to recognize it.
Can we get a SpelChk on that name?
You mean Lofgren’s backyard. Lofgren won’t do a thing about this.
LOL
But... they’re paid prevailing wage, no?
he’s probably hindu, not muslim
how do you pay YOURSELF?
Bringing back “indentured servitude”?
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.
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.
Fraud in the H-1B program? Never.
“how do you pay YOURSELF?”
Does he have to pay income tax on those paychecks?
Recognize it? More like she got a cut!
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.
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
Exactly.
It needs to be stopped immediately.
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