Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
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Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
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Re: Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
#2Weird is how many of the bad employers are Indians themselves (or I think so, given they're names):
Krishnan Kumar, from Softech
Malini Sridhar, from Compsys Technologies (found through http://appext20.dos.ny.gov/ )
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, part of India’s Tata group
Even the lawyers suing these employees :
> Past president of the South Asian Bar Association of Georgia, attorney Roy Banerjee has a penchant for wearing bow ties and representing body shops. He has prevailed in many cases against Indian immigrant programmers, winning judgments or settlements from some, while others fled back to India.
Re: Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
#3 This bullying persists at the bottom of a complex system
that supplies workers to some of America’s richest and
most successful companies, such as Cisco Systems, Verizon
and Apple.
Re: Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
#4Weird is how many of the bad employers are Indians themselves (or I think so, given they're names): Krishnan Kumar, from Softech Malini Sridhar, from Compsys Technologies (found through http://appext20.dos.ny.gov/ ) Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, part of India’s Tata group Even the lawyers suing these employees : > Past president of the South Asian Bar Association of Georgia, attorney Roy Banerjee has a penchant for…
Why would it surprise you, given that they are the ones having local knowledge on both sides of the trade?
Re: Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
#5This bullying persists at the bottom of a complex system that supplies workers to some of America’s richest and most successful companies, such as Cisco Systems, Verizon and Apple. I find this extremely confusing, why companies like Facebook and Apple and others in SV, that're sitting on an unbelievable shitload of cash take filthy shortcuts like this, screw the very people that work for them so badly. I mean, seriou…
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Re: Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
#6Weird is how many of the bad employers are Indians themselves (or I think so, given they're names): Krishnan Kumar, from Softech Malini Sridhar, from Compsys Technologies (found through http://appext20.dos.ny.gov/ ) Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, part of India’s Tata group Even the lawyers suing these employees : > Past president of the South Asian Bar Association of Georgia, attorney Roy Banerjee has a penchant for…
That's hardly surprising. Those who sold Africans into slavery were often other Africans.
Re: Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
#7This bullying persists at the bottom of a complex system that supplies workers to some of America’s richest and most successful companies, such as Cisco Systems, Verizon and Apple. I find this extremely confusing, why companies like Facebook and Apple and others in SV, that're sitting on an unbelievable shitload of cash take filthy shortcuts like this, screw the very people that work for them so badly. I mean, seriou…
For the record, Facebook, at least, says that it does not use labor brokers:
Some companies say they shun labor brokers; a Facebook official told CIR that
her company does not use them. Others who rely on them renounce the abuses but
are quick to deflect responsibility.Re: Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
#8WOW, this is scary. I'm from India and thinking of getting my MS in CS next year. I hope i don't end up like this.
Re: Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
#9As bad as some of these stories are, H1-B is way better than an L1 visa. Talk about indentured servitude. With an H1-B visa, an employee can at least change jobs and find another employer to work for. All the other employer has to do is transfer the H1 sponsorship, which is a few thousand dollars in fees but no legal hassles and not much delay. So with H1, you have decent job mobility. With the L-1 visa, which is almost never discussed in the media covering immigration, there is ZERO job mobility. You can only work for the company that got you to the United States from abroad where you were working for the same company. And for Indians who are here LEGALLY, the wait for a green card can be up to 9 years. A lot of companies make their employees wait before even applying for a green card. So they get a good 10 years of indentured servitude legally here in the United Sates.
Re: Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in US
#10This is disgusting on so many levels. Hopefully us Indians can now stop being so starry eyed over working abroad and see it for what it is.