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Tech Visa Lawsuit Raises Questions About New Jersey Politicians
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:28:11 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:16:56 -0800 From: Richard Pauli <rpauli () speakeasy net> Subject: Tech Visa Lawsuit Raises Questions About New Jersey Politicians X-Sender: rpauli () mail speakeasy net To: dave () farber net Dave, For IP - looks like the courts will be coming into this fray: RP ---------------------------- 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 NewsA 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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