H-1B visa abuse harming |
The "abuse" of H-1B visa is harming American workers, a leading US daily said and asked the US Congress to close the loopholes as some companies skirt rules for using H-1B workers by outsourcing recruitments to India-based firms like Tata and Infosys.There is no doubt that H-1B visas — temporary work permits for specially talented foreign professionals — are instead being used by American employers to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labour, the New York Times said in an editorial titled `Visa Abuses Harm American Workers`.It said the visas are supposed to be used only to hire college-educated foreigners in "specialty occupations" requiring "highly specialised knowledge" but in many cases, laid-off American workers have been required to train their lower-paid replacements.While lawmakers from both parties have denounced the visa abuse, it is increasingly widespread mainly because of loopholes in the law.The daily said companies are able to skirt the rules for using H-1B workers by outsourcing the actual hiring of those workers to Tata, Infosys and other temporary staffing firms, mostly based in India.
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