Comments on: Next round of Microsoft layoffs: 872 in March.

By: US slave worker

US slave worker — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:16:15 +0000

You name it ,
All Indians gigs,
TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Syntel, Patni are abusing L1 visa scheme and its a known fact.
but nobody cares. some senators do some show-offs with media and then its ove, about how they are concerned about this and the propoganda with their letters. It appears a total show off to the public with no results.

i am worried what will happen if this continues..

By: US slave worker

US slave worker — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:12:32 +0000

@2 , i will tell you the site you inform the ICE,

Quest in Columbus Ohio is using TCS services thru their L1 employees .

The skills whicg are commonly available here.
now report this to ICE, or point them to this site.

By: no name

no name — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:29:07 +0000

They didn’t notify me…

By: Unknown

Unknown — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:16:42 +0000

I think in lieu of notification laid of employees are paid severance with taht many months of salary.
So its like paying advance salary.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:22:46 +0000

Is this even true? According to the gov site, it says companies are required to notifiy affected workers at least 60 days in advance.

But the first round no one was notified.

Does that mean Microsoft is going aganist the law?

By: FD

FD — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:21:13 +0000

What is the sevarance package at these Microsoft Layoff?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:32:48 +0000

This is what we need to do to clean up all the contractors.
Recently the immigration dept has been rejecting most of the visa’s (new / renewal). One of the reasons given for rejecting the L1 Visas (company to company transfer) is “candidate does not work on proprietary tools”
L1 visas are only issued if the company in off-shore wants to transfer its employee to US to work on the proprietary tools that no one else or very few have knowledge.
That is why we are hearing big consulting firms pulling their L1 Blanket visa candidates back to India. Seems like all the blanket visas are now VOID.
This is what we all need to do.
If you know any contactor working on L1 visa at the client cite, inform ICE about it. ICE will raid the premises and will investigate.
Secondly, even H1-B are getting rejected, the reason given is “cannot do consulting on H1B”. I am really shocked with this reason. Well, this is what everybody has been doing.
You can also provide list of all these candidates to ICE. If possible provide the details of where they work. If you know where they live, ICE will raid the residence.
You can also complain about fake resume, degree etc.
To report any suspicious activity or to make a confidential reporting of immigration or customs violations, please call 1-866-DHS-2-ICE (1-866-347-2423).
Please post the comment in all the blogs you know.
Best of Luck,
Lets do some clean up.

By: FD

FD — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:14:20 +0000

What is the severance package at Microsoft layoff?