The “abuse” of H-1B visa is harming American workers, the New York Times said in an editorial on Thursday.
The article titled ‘Visa Abuses Harm American Workers’ demanded the US Congress to close the “loopholes as some companies skirt rules for using H-1B workers by outsourcing recruitments to India-based firms like Tata and Infosys.”
Expressing concern for American workers, the editorial also reminds its readers that visas are only supposed to be used to hire foreigners in “specialty occupations” requiring “highly specialised knowledge”.
It was quick to add that in several cases “laid-off American workers have been required to train their lower-paid replacements.”
A report by the newspaper earlier this week had said that most of the displaced workers had to “sign agreements prohibiting them from criticising their former employers as a condition of receiving severance pay.”
The editorial concludes by saying on one hand, these gag orders contribute towards the silencing of laid-off employees, on the other hand, they act as a legitimate legal proof for employers to defend their actions.
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