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treestar

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17. You're throwing your hands up as if laws are useless

Reply to jeff47 (Reply #16)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 02:55 PM

Feb 2013

They are enforced. I've worked with the state department of labor and seen them do it. There are stringent penalties against employers for violating these laws, not having worker's compensation insurance, etc. Employees do fight back. They aren't as passive as you suggest. If they were, the unions would never have come into being.

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Top 10 H-1B Visa Companies All Specialize in Shipping American Jobs Overseas [View all] The Straight Story Feb 2013 OP

No they have to be paid prevailing wage treestar Feb 2013 #1

How is "prevailing" determined? nt patrice Feb 2013 #3

The page shows treestar Feb 2013 #5

A thread from the past that covers that: The Straight Story Feb 2013 #4

So better enforcement of the law might be in order treestar Feb 2013 #6

I agree The Straight Story Feb 2013 #7

The government would investigate treestar Feb 2013 #12

Because they'd like to have a job again someday. jeff47 Feb 2013 #10

If that argument were true treestar Feb 2013 #13

Hi, welcome to the United States. I hope you enjoy your stay. jeff47 Feb 2013 #16

You're throwing your hands up as if laws are useless treestar Feb 2013 #17

So that Wal-Mart decision I referenced did not happen? jeff47 Feb 2013 #19

And some murders are prosecuted treestar Feb 2013 #22

The point is you have no idea what you're talking about. jeff47 Feb 2013 #25

I've googled it and gotten information treestar Feb 2013 #27

Because googling means you have more information than those who live through it, right? jeff47 Feb 2013 #29

Now you are claiming that H-1Bs are the thing they care about most treestar Feb 2013 #30

300k of 1.4M. jeff47 Feb 2013 #33

They only have to be paid the prevailing wage for the position they are hired, jeff47 Feb 2013 #9

Then they are doing something illegal treestar Feb 2013 #14

Government can't enforce what government doesn't know about. jeff47 Feb 2013 #18

Wait just a minute treestar Feb 2013 #23

FFS Pay attention jeff47 Feb 2013 #24

You simply refuse to deal with the fact that there is a law requiring treestar Feb 2013 #26

And if you actually had read my posts, you'd see that I'm fully aware of such a law jeff47 Feb 2013 #28

You seem not to have read the link. treestar Feb 2013 #32

You claimed my only objections to H-1B visas were out of nativism jeff47 Feb 2013 #34

This is not true. Here are the facts: ChromeFoundry Feb 2013 #15

One should also have to recognize all the facts, something you so-called centrists Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #20

K&R patrice Feb 2013 #2

Tata and Infosys are India-based and I suspect others Bluestar Feb 2013 #8

All of them except Accenture (Formerly Anderson Consulting), IBM, M$, & Deloitte Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #21

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren thinks H-1B's are undercutting the US workforce OhioChick Feb 2013 #11

Message auto-removed year of the cat Feb 2013 #31