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Intel announced that it will layoff 12,000 American workers after requesting 14,523 H-1B visas and green cards to import foreign workers. The company said the layoffs are part of a "restructuring" plan to move the company's focus to mobile devices, yet only American workers will be affected.
Intel requested 8,351 H-1B visas and 5,172 permanent green cards for foreign workers between 2010-2015, citing that they could not find enough skilled American workers. Now that many of Intel's requests have been approved the company plans a massive layoff of American employees.
Intel follows a national trend by many technology companies such as Disney and Abbot Laboratories to use visas like the H-1B visa to import cheaper labor instead of hiring American workers. In some cases, the employees were forced to train their replacements in order to receive their severance pay.
Intel was one of the technology companies involved in the 2013 Gang of Eight bill that promoted increasing the H-1B visa caps. And in 2014, the company called for allowing the spouses and children of H-1B recipients to automatically qualify for work in the U.S. as well.
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/intel-will-layoff-12000-american-workers-after-requesting-14523-foreign-workers
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Intel/267260.htm
http://archive.azcentral.com/community/chandler/articles/20130830intel-pushing-for-changes-in-visa-laws.html
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inwiththenew
(972 posts)All the money saved on labor costs can go to the people who really deserve it. By that I mean the shareholders and executives.
orwell
(7,771 posts)...I can barely contain my glee!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)Nothing has changed with the top 15 IT companies...
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)At the salaries listed in the second article, they wouldn't save a bunch of money. Every salary listed is over $100,000 and some exceed $130,000.
I get your point; and when there are American workers with the skills, I question the use of visas. In fact, the laws when followed, prohibit doing that. However, there is a skill shortage here. As the recent election indicates, we have a serious education problem in this country. Until we do something about that, we'll see this.
Iggo
(47,549 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Even if he does nothing with it but use and abuse those same unemployed workers.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Too expensive to hire American workers..
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)on second thought who am i kidding
LonePirate
(13,417 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)which is weird for news that is almost a year old
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Point is folks got laid off, and H1B visas requests were not cancelled..