A survey by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) revealed that the UK plastics industry has half of its temporary workers hailing from the European Union member states. This shows the continued dependence of the industry on EU workers, ...
Tags: plastics industry, plastics
China’s immigration policy was never designed to handle a huge influx of foreigners looking to stay in the country over a long period of time. Since the year 2000, the number of non-Chinese passing through airports, sea ports and ...
Tags: Visa Law, Open for Foreigners
With the H-1B fight over and lost, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out, almost flailing in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote Tuesday. The tech industry had won. It was getting late in the day and the ...
Tags: Stinky Onion, Computer Products, H-1B
Within the U.S. Senate's comprehensive immigration bill is a proposal to create a database that may shed new light on H-1B hiring. The intent of the database is to help improve the odds that a U.S. worker may get hired over a foreign ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has gathered technology luminaries to start an advocacy group focused on immigration and education. In an op-ed piece he wrote for The Washington Post, Zuckerberg announced the formation of ...
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THE Immigration Department has started investigating union concerns that Syntheo may have misused the 457 skilled temporary migration visa scheme in the process of fulfilling its contract with NBN Co. The Communications Electrical and ...
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IT and tech salaries rise to avoid a brain drain from the UK. A study revealed that the UK could face a shortfall of 33,000 technology workers by 2050. According to specialist recruiter, Randstad Technologies, the UK's workforce will ...
Tags: IT tech salaries, UK, technology workers
The UK faces a shortage of 33,300 skilled IT and tech workers by 2050 due to a skills deficit, an ageing workforce and restrictive migration policies, according to recruitment firm Randstad Technologies. The firm based its findings on the ...
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Computerworld - U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who is chair of the Senate's Immigration, Refugees and Border Security subcommittee, is introducing his own STEM visa bill to challenge a similar Republican bill in the House. Schumer's ...
Tags: Chuck Schumer, green cards, Republican bill in the House, IT industry
Monday marked the start of the 2013 federal fiscal year, and with it the release of a new batch of H-1B visas. The 85,000 H-1B visa cap, including the 20,000 visas that are set aside for advanced degree graduates with STEM (Science, ...
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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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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, ...
Tags: technology, IT wages, inflation, still-sluggish U.S.economy, running index
On the heels of Modern’s annual pallet usage reader survey and a related webcast, I had an opportunity to talk to Howe Wallace, the CEO of PalletOne. Headquartered in Bartow, Florida, and with over $200 million a year in revenue, ...
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