{"id":751,"date":"2002-06-25T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2002-06-25T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/06\/h1b-abuse\/"},"modified":"2002-06-25T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2002-06-25T19:08:13","slug":"h1b-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/25\/h1b-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"H1B Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2002\/06\/25\/BU244728.DTL\">Sun accused of worker discrimination \/ U.S. citizen employee says he was canned in favor of foreigners<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. government is looking into Sun Microsystems&#8217; hiring practices after an ex-employee filed complaints alleging that the Santa Clara firm discriminates against American citizens in favor of foreign workers on H1-B visas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time H1B abuse got some attention &#8211; there are entire companies in the Silicon Valley that hire nothing but H1Bs, and solely because they&#8217;re cheap and obedient workers who can be threatened with deportation if they don&#8217;t slave away for peanuts. And there are those who mix H1Bs with Americans who use the threat of layoff and transfer of duties to an H1B to better exploit the Americans. In this economy both are common, and I could name names, yes I could.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; Sun accused of worker discrimination \/ U.S. citizen employee says he was canned in favor of foreigners The U.S. government is looking into Sun Microsystems&#8217; hiring practices after an ex-employee filed complaints alleging that the Santa Clara firm discriminates against American citizens in favor of foreign workers on H1-B visas. It&#8217;s about time H1B &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/25\/h1b-abuse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;H1B Abuse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-c7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}