Despite the fact that technology plays an increasingly important role in the economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. This may be tech's inconvenient truth. The still sluggish U.S. economy gets most of the blame for this wage ...
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A U.S. District Court judge today threw out a lawsuit filed against Infosys brought by former employee Jay Palmer. In his ruling, Judge Myron Thompson in Alabama almost seemed apologetic, but cited technicalities in Alabama state law that ...
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Despite the fact that technology is playing an increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, IT wages remain persistently flat. "IT salaries have not really kept pace with inflation," said Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, ...
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When the recession hit in 2008, Congress put the idea of a "skills shortage" and a need for more H-1B visas in a closet. That didn't mean, however, that interest in raising the H-1B cap went away for everyone. New York City Mayor ...
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A U.S. House intelligence committee report warning that two Chinese networking companies are posing security risks to the country also includes allegations of job bias and visa fraud at one of the firms, Huawei Technologies. The report, ...
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The U.S. House is moving closer to acting on legislation that would make green cards available to as many as 55,000 foreign nationals who have earned advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math -- the so-called STEM fields. ...
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The Indian offshoring giant Infosys ran a "full-throated campaign of retaliation" against employees to deter them from cooperating with federal authorities investigating visa fraud, according to a new lawsuit. This allegation is made in ...
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The New York metropolitan area has the highest demand for H-1B workers in the United States, according to a new study that examines regional use of the work visa. That's followed by Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and Washington ...
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Tuesday's election leaves President Barack Obama in the White House and maintains the balance of power in Congress.In many longstanding technology debates,policy experts see little movement forward,although lawmakers may look for ...
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When the recession hit in 2008,Congress and big tech employers mostly shelved the idea of creating more H-1B visas to combat what some described as a skills shortage.This year,however,proposals for overhauling work visa programs have ...
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Congress should invest $5 billion in the country's education system -- particularly in math, science and technology education -- over the next 10 years and pay for it with increased fees on high-skill immigration, a Microsoft executive ...
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Computerworld - Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Mitt Romney's platform describes government's basic research efforts as an area Romney "plans to cut."Romney says research is important to innovation and ...
Computerworld - A case that pits a whistleblowing employee against offshore outsourcing giant Infosys will be delayed until next month, a judge ordered on Wednesday. The trial, which was scheduled to begin Monday, is the result of a ...
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