2 Silicon Valley companies owned by Indian Americans have been penalised for violating H1B visa rules
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Scopus Consulting Group and Orian Engineers, two companies based in Kishore Kumar, the owner of these companies brought workers from India and other countries on H-1B visas to employ them as software engineers for other firms based in Silicon Valley, such as eBay, Apple and Cisco Systems.
While investigating the case, the
Stephen R Henley, in his capacity as the Federal Administrative Law Judge, ordered both companies to pay 21 workers $84,000 in back wages and $103,000 as fines to the federal government.
"Some of the country's most cutting-edge, successful organisations benefit from underpaid H-1B workers," said Susana Blanco, who is the director for the Wage and Hour Division in San Francisco. "H-1B workers must be paid local prevailing wages. We will not allow companies to undercut local wages and hurt US workers and businesses who pay their workers fairly," she continued.
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The employers also recruited experienced workers, most of whom have master's degrees, and paid them as entry level employees.
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