Senator to Microsoft: Invest in America
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More succinctly said than I could put it. Stop hiring foreigners and start hiring some of the millions of American Tech workers looking for jobs. Give them full benefits and good paying salaries.
The company has been a champion of expanding the H-1B visa program, a temporary visa program that lets American companies and universities hire foreign workers in a category considered by the government to be a “specialty occupation.”
Microsoft said late Friday that some of the people who lose their jobs would likely be non-Americans.
“We care about all our employees, so we are providing services and support to try to help every affected worker, whether they are U.S. workers or foreign nationals working in this country on a visa,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in an e-mail statement.
Microsoft employs thousands of workers through the visa program, according to Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.
The letter asked Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to provide a breakdown of the jobs to be eliminated, and how many of those are individuals with H-1B visas and how many are Americans. Grassley also wants to know what the breakdown will be when the layoffs are complete.
Years ago, I was offered a job through an employment agency to process H1B visas for foreigners to work tech jobs at microsoft, though I turned it down. Couldn’t see approving foreigners to work American jobs. And the job wasn’t even through Microsoft. They hire data and lower administrative work through temp and employment agencies. That way they can pay lower wages and save from paying any sort of benefits.
That’s just the way they roll.
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