DOL investigated a contract that involved Infosys, TCS and Southern California Edison.
By Raghavendra M
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Software giant Infosys has said the US government has cleared the firm of H-1B visa violation charges. The firm was under investigation along with another giant TCS for possible violations of H-1B visa rules since June.
In a statement, Infosys said: “Infosys is pleased to report that the US Department of Labor (DOL) concluded its investigation with a determination of compliance regarding labor condition applications filed in the Southern California Edison project”.
The DOL investigated a contract that involved Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services and the utility firm Southern California Edison. TCS is yet to make a statement in this regard.
The second largest software services firm in India, Infosys said that it fully cooperated with the DOL in its investigation and over 145 files were reviewed, with no violations found.
Largely used by Indian IT firms, the H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US employers to temporarily recruit foreign workers in specialty occupations.
“IT services companies like Infosys provide superior service, skill and scope from global centers of excellence, bringing value and technology innovations to enable American companies to be competitive and succeed”, said Sandeep Dadlani, EVP and Head of Americas.
Infosys continues to actively recruit and hire talent in the U.S., but while there is a shortage of technology skills, Infosys is a responsible participant in the H-1B program, he said.
“We do not practice or condone unfair or unethical H-1B visa practices. Our key priority is to operate fairly, ethically and with integrity, which is good business and what our clients expect”, Dadlani added.
Infosys will cooperate with any future government agency inquiries to continue to demonstrate its commitment to compliance, said David Kennedy, EVP, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer.
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Don’t print an obvious lie:
“Infosys continues to actively recruit and hire talent in the U.S., but while there is a shortage of technology skills, Infosys is a responsible participant in the H-1B programme, he added.”
Clearly at Disney and at SCE there were too many technology workers, with U.S. citizenship. These skilled workers were forced to train a bunch of freshers. That’s what happened and you can’t deny it. But you can’t even process it, because you are so caught up in the lie.
The Obama administration could suspend InfoSys and Tata.
These two companies never hire any American engineers.
Have several Offices that are 100% made up of worker in on an H-1b. And have internal programs, now publicly exposed in U.S. court records, to never hire Americans.
These two companies are H-1b dependent, and must attest that they are trying to hire Americans.
The fact that they never do, and in fact actively displace Americans, in the most Obvious case ever, has to be grounds for at least a RICO conspiracy to circumvent U.S. law and perjure themselves on U.S. Federal documents.
But the Obama administration lies with these Offshore Outsourcing companies, because they helped create the ACA website. Please Congress investigate this.
The H-1b visa is most misunderstood U.S. Federal Government program.
Because for decades lobbyists have had their puppet politicians and paid-off commentators spread lies about how the visa is actually used.
The truth is:
– You can use the H-1b visa to displace better qualified, more experienced U.S. workers with trainees from India.
– You can have internal programs to never consider the resume of U.S. citizens for any job on U.S. soil (Publicly exposed in U.S. court records). You just can’t advertise it, “I say because that would embarrass the U.S. government.:
– Most H-1b visas are taken by Offshore Outsourcing companies, our domestic technology originating companies barely use a 1/3 of the H-1b visas.
The reason why Silicon Valley can’t get every H-1b visa they apply for, is because the Offshore Outsourcing companies over subscribe to the H-1b, and so force a lottery. The Offshore Outsourcing companies don’t care about the lottery, because if H-1b candidate A or B doesn’t make it in, then C will do just fine. Because they are all trainees anyway.
Clearly more H-1b visas will just mean more high skilled American workers forced to train their replacement foreign freshers and a faster rate of job destruction in the United States.
Unless we kick the Offshore Outsourcing companies out of the H-1b system. Why we didn’t kick them out from the beginning is Beyond-All-Reason.