Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
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Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
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Re: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
#2This is more common than you'd imagine and it's telling that a company the size of Cisco can't hide it.
Between OPT and H1B the relationship between tech and immigration is grim.
Re: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
#3Supposing it is true, why would Cisco prefer work visa holders over US citizens? Lower salaries? Less job mobility(meaning longer average tenure)?
Re: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
#4Supposing it is true, why would Cisco prefer work visa holders over US citizens? Lower salaries? Less job mobility(meaning longer average tenure)?
Did you read the article? It’s literally the first sentence.
Re: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
#5Supposing it is true, why would Cisco prefer work visa holders over US citizens? Lower salaries? Less job mobility(meaning longer average tenure)?
Per the article... lower salaries.
Re: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
#6Supposing it is true, why would Cisco prefer work visa holders over US citizens? Lower salaries? Less job mobility(meaning longer average tenure)?
> Company allegedly favored visa holders in hiring, then paid them less
Re: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
#7This is more common than you'd imagine and it's telling that a company the size of Cisco can't hide it. Between OPT and H1B the relationship between tech and immigration is grim.
Its like the secret everyone knows, but nobody wants to do anything about unless they get caught. Even then when they get caught the worst punishment they will get is a days profit MAYBE. Its easier to pay a $100 million fine every 10 years than to have to pay reasonable wages.
Re: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
#8Supposing it is true, why would Cisco prefer work visa holders over US citizens? Lower salaries? Less job mobility(meaning longer average tenure)?
Did you read the article? It’s literally the first sentence.
Well, second. These are the first two sentences:
>Labor Department investigators recently concluded that Cisco Systems Inc. discriminated against U.S. workers by favoring immigrant visa holders for job openings, sources familiar with the probe tell Bloomberg Law.
>The DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs determined that the technology firm secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens for certain jobs and paid the visa holders at a lower rate than their American counterparts, according to the sources.
Re: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
#9Sad thing is - if this is going on at Cisco imagine what goes on in the farm fields, the restaurants, the hotels, and the rest of the lowest paying jobs in this country. If it takes YEARS to build a case against giant company how many little guys are getting away with it on a daily basis?
Re: Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
#10This is an open secret in tech. Visa holders have less job offers to negotiate with, less job mobility, and consequently get paid less. Companies preferentially hire them over Americans.
Further, the recent actions making harder for "body shops" like Infosys are actually helping big tech companies win more visa lotteries. This means the recent action that was supposed to help American workers, is actually causing the best jobs to shift more to immigrants and less to Americans.
The whole visa and immigration system needs huge reform. I am not anti immigrant but the immigration system disproportionately hurts American software engineers and American tech. You don't see many visa holders working in sales and marketing, or teaching, or law, mostly just software engineering (at the high end) and then migrant farming and illegal immigrant factory workers (at the low end).