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2020-06-25 Cyber

Project Veritas #ExposeFacebook: Hidden Cameras Show Facebook Contractors Bragging About Removing Pro-Trump Content From Platform

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#1 Lara:

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#2 Wikipedia on Cognizant

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#3 H-1B visa violations

Cognizant leads the ranks of companies receiving H-1B visas from the United States. The company has been steadily increasing its U.S. work force. In January 2011, the company announced plans to expand its U.S. delivery centers, including a new 1,000-person (0.4% of worldwide workforce) facility in Phoenix, Arizona.[126] In February 2011, Cognizant said it had 60 full-time recruiters actively hiring in the U.S.[127]

In 2009, an investigation by the US Department of Labor (DoL) found Cognizant in violation of the H-1B provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Administrative Act. 67 of its workers underpaid due to unintentional administrative errors, according to Cognizant. The DoL investigation revealed that Cognizant had achieved 99.7% compliance in its management of H-1B visa-related issues.[128] The company paid US$509,607 in back wages to the 67 employees. No fines or visa restrictions were imposed, since DoL did not discover any willful violations. Joseph Petrecca, the director of the Wage and Hour Division's Northern New Jersey District Office, praised the company for taking immediate steps to correct the violations: "This level of cooperation sets a standard for others in the industry."[129]

In 2016, the company was the subject of a lawsuit by workers for Walt Disney World who said workers from India were brought into the United States on H-1B visas in order to replace them.[130] However, in October 2016, federal Judge Gregory A. Presnel of the United States District Court in Orlando dismissed the lawsuits, stating "none of the allegedly false statements put at issue in the complaint are adequate."[131]

Posted by 3dc 2020-06-25 01:36|| 2020-06-25 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Cognizant leads the ranks of companies receiving H-1B visas from the United States.

Displacing Americans is big business.
Number of employees: 291,700 (2020)
Revenue: US$16.8 billion (2019)

Posted by Ebberens Glimp4613 2020-06-25 02:38|| 2020-06-25 02:38|| Front Page Top

#5 That comes out to $57,600 revenue per employee. You can hire a grocery store cashier for that kind of money once benefits and taxes are included. Yet supposedly, these H1B visa high tech workers are being paid "competitive" wages.

Posted by Ebberens Glimp4613 2020-06-25 02:44|| 2020-06-25 02:44|| Front Page Top

#6 How will Cognizant handle suddenly being cut off from H-1B staffers — or at least additional staffers, I’m not sure how to understand President Trump’s executive order — through the end of the year?

Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-25 02:49|| 2020-06-25 02:49|| Front Page Top

#7 I have worked with a tech team that was 100% American citizens before H1B1 people became popular. Creativity was through the roof. Also, it was a fun, company loyal team to work with also.

When companies started using H1B1 people, there were very good tech people coming in but they had to be told exactly what to do, there was no creativity, but that benefit was offset by lower pay per corporate.

One evening I was working very, very late and after midnight I noticed computers coming coming back to life by themselves, then cursors moving around on the screens. The H1B1 foreigners had given back door access to the systems to people back in their countries were going behind the fire walls at night and downloading the new code written the previous day.

THAT is how H1B1 workers were making up for the lower pay, they were selling access to their daily work to people and entities back home.

Posted by Crins Throlusing3119 2020-06-25 03:11|| 2020-06-25 03:11|| Front Page Top

#8 >there were very good tech people coming in but they had to be told exactly what to do

an oxymoron if you ask me...

If you cannot understand the problem yourself, you will never produce a useful, let alone optimal solution.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-25 06:22|| 2020-06-25 06:22|| Front Page Top

#9 With Americans put out of work by the Donk governors, they've handed Trump the lock on H1Bs. Hello Big Tech. As they say in NYC, its nothing personal, its business.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-25 06:31|| 2020-06-25 06:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Isn't H1Bs censoring the pre-election political discourse in the US a clear case of foreign meddling?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-06-25 07:15|| 2020-06-25 07:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Cancelling and censoring free speech expression? No surprise, that what fascists practicing tyranny over others do.

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