Report Shows that Our Government Uses More than 2,000 H-1B Workers

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Report Shows that Our Government Uses More than 2,000 H-1B Workers

By David North on December 2, 2019

I cannot improve on this sentence by Laura Francis of Bloomberg News:

    An attempt by the Labor Department to shine a light on companies that bring on board foreign workers with the help of oft-criticized third-party placement firms has outed an unexpected employer — the federal government.

Francis was writing about the use of H-1B workers hired indirectly by various government agencies, seemingly in conflict with the Trump administration's "Hire American" proclamations. She and two colleagues (Jasmine Ye Han and Christina Brady) at Bloomberg poured over a new data set that not only shows corporations' hiring of H-1Bs directly, it also shows indirect hires through the largely Indian outsourcing firms.

Their findings:

https://cis.org/North/Report-Shows-Our-Government-Uses-More-2000-H1B-Workers

[PeteS in CA]

From https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/government-employs-h-1b-workers-despite-hire-american-pledge (the Bloomberg story cited by the OP article):

The DOL—one of the agencies tasked with ensuring that the H-1B visa program doesn’t displace U.S. workers—itself contracted with third-party companies to take on at least 40 H-1B workers, according to the Bloomberg Law analysis.

Data indicate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are directed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency under a conservatorship, are the most popular destinations among federal agencies for H-1B workers placed by third-party companies. Together, the two account for at least 1,340 H-1B workers sponsored by more than 460 different third-party companies.

Also high on the list is the Health and Human Services Department (at least 290 H-1B workers), Amtrak (at least 60 H-1B workers), the Commerce Department (at least 60 H-1B workers), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (at least 40 H-1B workers).

The vast majority of the workers are in information technology occupations such as software developers, computer programmers, and computer systems analysts.