A Feature of Alien Worker Programs: You Can Discriminate as Much as You Like
By David North on December 14, 2022
If you are a bigoted employer and you want to hire nothing but, say, white males, you would soon be in trouble with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, assuming the hiring was going on within the U.S.
But if the hiring is happening outside the U.S. for jobs in the States, you can be as discriminatory as you want to be. The U.S. government not only will not object, it will (if the paperwork is right) issue you the documents for hiring exactly the shade of workers you want.
No wonder some employers love foreign worker programs!
We have been reminded of this three times in recent weeks by three totally unconnected events in which employers have made decisions in favor of Indian nationals in one case, against Haitians in another, and for whites in a third. The three foreign worker programs were H-1B in the first, H-2B (non-skilled, non-ag workers) in the second, and H-2A ag workers in the third. In the first case, the bias was in favor of workers of color; in the others it was against workers of color.
The first case is a class action in the federal courts in New Jersey accusing Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., the huge Indian-owned labor broker, of favoring South Asian workers in its hiring practices. Tata is an employer that rents large numbers of H-1B workers to many high-tech firms.
Bloomberg reports that:
https://cis.org/North/Feature-Alien-Worker-Programs-You-Can-Discriminate-Much-You
