donganaaK Posted June 12, 2015 Report Posted June 12, 2015 NEW YORK: The US government has opened an investigation against two of the biggest Indian outsourcing companies for possible violations of H1-B visa rules, according to a media report.The Department of Labour has opened the investigation against Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys for "possible violations of rules for visas for foreign technology workers under contracts they held with an electric utility Southern California Edison," the New York Times said.READ ALSO: At Disney, American workers forced to train their H-1B replacementsThe power company had recently laid off more than 500 technology workers amid claims that many of those laid off were made to train their replacements who were immigrants on the temporary work visas brought in by the Indian firms senators Richard Durbin of Illinois and Jeff Sessions of Alabama announced the investigation after they were notified by the department, the report said. 13 companies barred from applying for H-1B visa... 1 of 14 Like past two years, this year too US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that processes H-1B applications, reached the cap for H-1B work visas for 2016 within the first five days. The huge number of applications show the massive demand for these visas. But it's increasingly getting tougher to get a work visa each year. For, these visas are often blamed for rising unemployment in the US. Past many years have also seen bills being introduced in the US that attempt to penalise -- in some way or the other -- the companies using these visas. There has also been a rise in the rejection rate of H-1B visa applications filed by companies. Below is the list of companies that have been debarred/disqualified from applying for H-1B visa. The move by the Labour Department comes days after the NYT had reported that hundreds of employees at entertainment giant Walt Disney were laid off and replaced with Indians holding H1-B visas.READ ALSO: H-1B visa application cap reached within 5 daysAbout 250 Disney employees were told in late October last year that they would be laid off and many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on H1-B visas brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India, the report had said.READ ALSO: New H-1B visa rule irks IT companiesIt had also cited the layoffs at the Southern California Edison power utility, saying that the layoffs are "raising new questions about how businesses and outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas, known as H-1B, to place immigrants in technology jobs in the United States."
solman Posted June 12, 2015 Report Posted June 12, 2015 TCS-- SCE Disney project HCL ki kada velindhi... mari info ekkada????
.thumb.jpg.ce42bb16ec102475a78c2087ce269c7d.jpg)
Recommended Posts