[IP] Tech Visa Lawsuit Raises Questions About New Jersey Politicians
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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:16:56 -0800
From: Richard Pauli <rpauli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Tech Visa Lawsuit Raises Questions About New Jersey Politicians
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Dave,
For IP - looks like the courts will be coming into this fray:
RP
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From: http://www.washtech.org/wt/news/industry/display.php?ID_Content=4640
Tech Visa Lawsuit Raises Questions About New Jersey Politicians
By Jeff Nachtigal
WashTech News
A five-year wait for two software programmers who were granted federal
class-action status in their lawsuit against a software company with ties
to a U.S. Senator may be nearing a close.
Sona Shah and Kai Barrett allege that Wilco Systems, Inc., a financial
services company based in New York, discriminated against its employees
based on their citizenship and immigration status.
Shah and Barrett say they filed the lawsuit on behalf of U.S. workers who
are discriminated against in favor of foreign workers, and on behalf of
foreign H-1B visa workers who are paid less than the prevailing wage for
U.S. workers with similar qualifications.
Shah is a U.S. citizen. Barrett is British citizen who was transferred from
Wilco's London office to work in New York in 1996 on an H-1B visa.
The case also casts a shadow over four-term U.S. Senator Frank L.
Lautenberg (D-NJ), founder and former board member of Advanced Data
Processing, Inc., the parent company of Wilco. In 2002 ADP, Inc. reported
over $7 billion in revenue.
Sen. Lautenberg's alleged inaction on H-1B and L-1 visa issues, combined
with the steady outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries from his state,
have frustrated New Jersey IT workers, who have seen their state gutted by
the outsourcing of high-tech jobs over the past five years.
"I think it's one of the worst cases of visa abuse that I've ever seen by
any single company," says Mike Gildea, executive director of the Department
of Professional Services for the AFL-CIO.
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http://www.washtech.org/wt/news/industry/display.php?ID_Content=4640
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