Feds set to destroy H-1B records
Oct 27, 2014 1:05 PM PT
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. has changed its H-1B record retention policy to the concern of people who study the visa's impact on the workforce and economy.
In a notice posted last week, the U.S. Department of Labor said that records used for labor certification, whether in paper or electronic, "are temporary records and subject to destruction" after five years, under a new policy.
There was no explanation for the change, and it is perplexing to researchers. The records under threat are called Labor Condition Applications (LCA), which identify the H-1B employer, worksite, the prevailing wage, and the wage paid to the worker.
"Throwing information away is anathema to the pursuit of knowledge and akin to willful stupidity or, worse, defacing Buddhist statues," said Lindsay Lowell, director of policy studies at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. "It undermines our ability to evaluate what the government does and, in today's world, retaining electronic records like the LCA is next to costless," he said.
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ChromeFoundry
(3,270 posts)I'm sure the NSA's Utah Data Center, 1 Million square foot facility, that cost $2 Billion is performing 5-year purges as well.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)who follows news relating to the tech industry and alleged labor law abuses can possibly fail to see what's going on here.
If the American people were somehow better off, that would be one thing. But in fact, upper management and shareholders of the titans in the tech industry are all getting filthy rich, the middle class is being strangled, and families are hurting.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)newthinking
(3,982 posts)H1-Bs during the high unemployment period from 2008?
H1-B is heavily abused.
djean111
(14,255 posts)championing the increase or who just may decide to bury that issue for campaign purposes.
Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)...they'll just be "hidden from the first page of Google."
The new "digital" shredding: hiding things from search engines so that the public can't find them.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)admit proudly that, yes, the US practices "friendly fascism", and that it is really the best form of government