Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
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Re: Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
#2Of course. More exploitable
Re: Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
#3Up to $14.25 million in fines and restitution for defrauding the H-1B program and screwing over US citizens. Facebook won't even blink an eye at that amount. How about barring them from the H-1B program for 5 years? I think that would be a great start.
Re: Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
#4Up to $14.25 million in fines and restitution for defrauding the H-1B program and screwing over US citizens. Facebook won't even blink an eye at that amount. How about barring them from the H-1B program for 5 years? I think that would be a great start.
If they actually had a case against Facebook and Facebook had caused actual harm the amount would be much higher.
Re: Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
#5I am supportive of visas for highly skilled workers and immigration in general. However I see many H1-Bs being hired that are frankly overqualified for the work they are end up doing (especially stuff like exploratory QA or entry level operations tasks). I'm not sure we need to import people to do this work.
I think the tech industry in the US should be looking at American non-college graduates to do this kind of work, especially people from families without a history of college degrees. This would be easier than teaching people how to code and it would be a great foot in the door to the tech industry and a solid middle class career, even if they never become coders.
Re: Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
#6Up to $14.25 million in fines and restitution for defrauding the H-1B program and screwing over US citizens. Facebook won't even blink an eye at that amount. How about barring them from the H-1B program for 5 years? I think that would be a great start.
If they actually had a case against Facebook and Facebook had caused actual harm the amount would be much higher.
It's already the largest amount ever recovered in a case of this nature. The fact is simply that, just like in so many other cases, the penalties are so low that it's just a cost of doing business for these large corporations.
Re: Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
#7Up to $14.25 million in fines and restitution for defrauding the H-1B program and screwing over US citizens. Facebook won't even blink an eye at that amount. How about barring them from the H-1B program for 5 years? I think that would be a great start.
If they actually had a case against Facebook and Facebook had caused actual harm the amount would be much higher.
Facebook probably only settled it instead of choosing to fight because it is barred from filling green cards while the case is still in progress, hurting its employees and its ability to hire.
Any company that has successfully filed an employment green card (especially at that scale) is favoring immigrants over citizens by definition. The EB green card rules are highly outdated and a reform is long overdue.
Re: Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they actually had a case against Facebook and Facebook had caused actual harm the amount would be much higher.
Facebook probably only settled it instead of choosing to fight because it is barred from filling green cards while the case is still in progress, hurting its employees and its ability to hire. Any company that has successfully filed an employment green card (especially at that scale) is favoring immigrants over citizens by definition. The EB green card rules are highly outdated and a reform is long overdue.
Yeah I know at least a half dozen folks who didnt join facebook or seriously thought about passing on facebook this year due to the greencard processing issues. Recruiters told them, "Zuck says it will be figured out by the end of the year" and I guess he was right.
Re: Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
#9Up to $14.25 million in fines and restitution for defrauding the H-1B program and screwing over US citizens. Facebook won't even blink an eye at that amount. How about barring them from the H-1B program for 5 years? I think that would be a great start.
If they actually had a case against Facebook and Facebook had caused actual harm the amount would be much higher.
Facebook "refused to recruit, consider, or hire qualified and available U.S. workers for over 2,600 positions."
Re: Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
#10The fine is like 8 E7 salaries. Insane how little money that is for facebook. The much greater impact would have been delaying greencard processing for longer. They probably laughed when they found out that is all the fine would be.