To: H-1B/L-1/offshoring e-newsletter Tue Jan 14 10:18:51 PST 2014 As many of you know, I have found that abuse of the H-1B visa and employer-sponsored green cards is rampant throughout the industry, including the mainstream U.S. firms. For that reason, I object to the notion that the abuse occurs primarily in the Indian outsourcing firms, and thus have generally not covered news stories here that focus on those latter firms. A case in point is the suit last year against Infosys. Well, here is a suit against a mainstream U.S. firm: http://www.itworld.com/it-management/399838/ex-oracle-salesman-claims-complaining-about-wage-discrimination-got-him-fired ("Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money for an Indian'," IT World, January 13, 2014) If the allegations are true, they certainly don't surprise me. I've shown statistically that the big firms tend to underpay their H-1Bs. See p.11 of my paper in Migration Letters, at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/MigLtrs.pdf And of course I hear things about those firms (sometimes from managers themselves). Once I was even approached to serve as an expert witness in a suit to be brought by an H-1B against Oracle, and the (Indian) plaintiff seemed to possibly have a plausible case, based on the little that was presented to me. (I turned down the engagement, as I have been doing for several years now, due to lack of time. As far as I know, the suit was never filed.) Norm Archived at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/OracleSuit.txt