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India's tech industry panics over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas

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Re: India's tech industry panics over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas

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nobody is freaking out. Infosys and TCS are NOT India's representative companies anymore. They are the Flipkarts and the Olacabs and Paytms now. Or even Freshdesk, Zoho and Helpshift.

I think most people welcome the move - we have lost many good potential employees who were headhunted by outsourcing companies by showing them the American dream and then chained to the yoke in some dreadful job.

The services business is not going to be affected that much - most of the work was happening onshore in India anyway. This is a delta of a billion dollars at worst. In the long run, this is going to be much better for both economies.

Re: India's tech industry panics over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas

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"Preference given to H1-Bs that pay the most". Sounds like a win for workers all around.

What happens when the employers run a fake payroll to pay more money on paper but low in reality ?

That is called fraud, it is already illegal.

Re: India's tech industry panics over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happens when the employers run a fake payroll to pay more money on paper but low in reality ?

Then they get caught and fined I would imagine.

Not just fined, that would come under criminal law.

Re: India's tech industry panics over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas

#17

Is "freaks out" really appropriate for a news piece title? Did a seventeen year old girl write this? Yikes.

No, it's not appropriate, but it's what happens when an organization caters to the lowest common denominator for too long.

Re: India's tech industry panics over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas

#18

Is "freaks out" really appropriate for a news piece title? Did a seventeen year old girl write this? Yikes.

a bit sexist/condescending here? you're implying s 17 year old boy wouldn't say that? why refer to gender?

Re: India's tech industry panics over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas

#19

Is "freaks out" really appropriate for a news piece title? Did a seventeen year old girl write this? Yikes.

I don't mind critiques of language formality or effectiveness, etc, but no need to police or denigrate young women. Keep misogyny out of it.

Re: India's tech industry panics over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happens when the employers run a fake payroll to pay more money on paper but low in reality ?

This seems irrelevant to me. What's stopping them from doing that today?

The Justice Department, I suppose? http://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/two-indian-americans-arre...
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