Bay Area Tech Company Busted For Paying Indian Workers $1.21/Hour

[shortylickens]

thread beanie?

 

[Belegost]

I think the laws for wages in the US don't care about the type of visa though. No worked in the US is legally allowed to work for less than the federal minimum wage. So, continuing to pay them their extremely low Indian wage is illegal while they are working in the US. There entire argument was "well, we didn't know that".

No argument there, it's BS to bring guys here and pay them like that, and like hell they didn't know.

However, this case is not relevant to the H1B visa discussion, these were not workers here on H1B. This company brought a set of temp workers here to abuse them using much more lax L1 visas. Using that to describe the completely different H1B visas as similarly abusive is disingenuous.

As someone who works with H1B holders now and in the past, while many of them worked more hours than were reasonable, none of them were ignorant enough not to make prevailing wage here.

 

[werepossum]

No argument there, it's BS to bring guys here and pay them like that, and like hell they didn't know.

However, this case is not relevant to the H1B visa discussion, these were not workers here on H1B. This company brought a set of temp workers here to abuse them using much more lax L1 visas. Using that to describe the completely different H1B visas as similarly abusive is disingenuous.

As someone who works with H1B holders now and in the past, while many of them worked more hours than were reasonable, none of them were ignorant enough not to make prevailing wage here.

It's relevant because it's the same mindset in both cases. The intention is not to find skills honestly not available domestically, the intention is to obtain those skills at a lower cost, whether by paying less or by getting more work for the same pay.