Washington<\/p>\n
A US-based IT staffing company has been asked to pay over USD 3,00,000 to its 12 H-1B employees for paying them far below their salary and imposed a penalty of over USD 45,000 for violating the labour provisions, amidst the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown against the abuse of the visa category popular among Indian professionals.<\/p>\n
The US Department of Labour Wage and Hour Division (WHD) during an investigation found the Redmond-based company, which has offices in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, violated the labour provisions of the H-1B visa programme by paying its guest workers far below the required wages, a media release said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
As a result, People Tech Group Inc has been asked to pay its 12 employees USD 3,09,914 and has been slapped with a penalty of USD 45,564, it said.<\/p>\n
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.<\/p>\n
Investigators found that the company paid entry-level wages to H-1B computer analysts and computer programmers who performed the work of much more experienced employees and should have received higher prevailing rates, the Department of Labour said.<\/p>\n
The People Tech Group also failed to pay workers for the time when it did not provide them work, as the law requires, the department said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe intent of the H-1B foreign labour certification programme is to help American companies find the highly skilled talent they need when they can prove that a shortage of US workers exists,\u201d said Wage and Hour Division Acting District Director Carrie Aguilar in Seattle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe resolution of this case demonstrates our commitment to safeguard American jobs, level the playing field for law-abiding employers, and ensure no one is being paid less than they are legally owed,\u201d Aguilar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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