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H-1B visa: Company supplying thousands of tech workers to Silicon Valley discriminated against non-Indians, jury finds
The H-1B has become a political flashpoint. Critics point to abuses including replacement of U.S. workers by visa holders, while the tech industry lobbies to boost the annual cap on new visas.
Three U.S.-born workers described in the lawsuit as “Caucasian” — Vartan Piroumian of California, Christy Palmer of Arizona and Edward Cox of Texas — sued Cognizant in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in 2017. When he secured new business for the company, his manager “would staff the client projects with visa-holding employees from India, rather than non-Indian members of Mr. Franchitti’s group who were already in the U.S. and available for this work,” the lawsuit alleged. Franchitti was fired in 2016 after complaining repeatedly that he was being made to sign hundreds of fraudulent invitation letters supporting H-1B visa applications for jobs that didn’t exist, the lawsuit claimed.
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