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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The University of Exeter is using IT to replace a manual system of processing overseas students to comply with UK Border Authority rules. The university is a Highly Trusted Sponsor (HTS) and must ensure that the 2,000 overseas students it ...
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(i)Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity ...
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(i)Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity ...
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(i)Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity ...
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(i)Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity ...
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Walmart, a leading food retailer in the US, has suspended a seafood supplier after an advocacy group for foreign workers released a report revealing poor working conditions at the site. According to the advocacy group, the National ...
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Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and Export Commodity ...
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