Tuesday, June 20, 2006
U.S. engineering groups are filing a growing number of discrimination complaints against American companies for allegedly favoring foreign workers.
Groups such as the Programmers' Guild have filed more than 300 employment discrimination complaints against U.S. companies alleging that employers have "discriminated against U.S. workers in job postings that express preference towards hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas."
One of the complaints was filed with the Justice Department's Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Discrimination.
The complaints come in response to intense lobbying by high-tech groups to lift the annual cap on H-1B high-tech visas. The current annual cap totaling 65,000 visas was reached in late May. Groups like the IEEE-USA claim the H-1B visa program is being abused by U.S. employers in order to depress wages.
Guild Founder John Miano claimed in a statement: "Abuse of the H-1B program has become so widespread that companies apparently feel free to engage openly in the practice" of seeking only foreign workers.
By: DocMemory
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