• MEDIA: Tech firms continue to exploit H-1B visa programme amid layoffs:

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 22 11:08:27 2023
    The anonymous Times of India hack on whether Donald Trump regrets
    dispatching Jared and Ivanka Kushner to Silicon Valley to sue for
    peace with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg: <URL:https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigration/tech-firms-continue-to-exploit-h-1b-visa-programme-amid-layoffs-study/articleshow/99469483.cms>
    | Citing an example, the ECI research said Amazon was at the top of
    | the list in terms of both new H-1B workers and layoffs. It hired
    | 6,400 new H-1B workers in 2022, and 6,200 workers in 2021. The tech
    | giant has either recently laid off or plans to lay off 27,150 of its
    | employees -- more than twice the number of H-1B workers it hired in
    | 2021 and 2022 combined.
    |
    | Google and Meta, both long-time top H-1B employers, together hired
    | over 3,100 new H-1B workers last year.The duo laid off 33,000
    | employees, almost 11 times the number of new H-1B workers they hired
    | in 2022.

    Does Susie Wiles worry that Ken Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch will allow
    Ron DeSantis to outflank Trump from the right on the National Question
    by using their campaign stump to call on Kevin McCarthy and Mitch
    McConnell to repeal the H-1B scab worker import pipeline?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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