{"id":1027653,"date":"2026-08-10T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027653"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:57:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:27:37","slug":"us-senator-seeks-tighter-h-1b-hiring-practices-over-concerns-about-foreign-workers-replacing-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/10\/us-senator-seeks-tighter-h-1b-hiring-practices-over-concerns-about-foreign-workers-replacing-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator seeks tighter H-1B hiring practices over concerns about foreign workers replacing Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) has called for tighter oversight of H-1B hiring practices, raising concerns that companies could be using the visa programme and the broader PERM labour certification process to favour foreign workers over qualified Americans. In a letter to Acting US Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, Schmitt urged the Department of Labor to modernise recruitment rules, strengthen fraud checks and ensure American workers get a genuine opportunity to compete for jobs before employers seek permanent certification for foreign employees.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt has urged the Department of Labor (DOL) to overhaul the rules governing the employment-based immigration process, arguing that outdated recruitment requirements could allow companies to favour foreign workers over qualified Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) has called for tighter oversight of H-1B hiring practices, raising concerns that companies could be using the visa programme and the broader PERM labour certification process to favour foreign workers over qualified Americans. In a letter to Acting US Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, Schmitt urged the Department of Labor to modernise recruitment rules, strengthen fraud checks and ensure American workers get a genuine opportunity to compete for jobs before employers seek permanent certification for foreign employees. Schmitt has urged the Department of Labor (DOL) to overhaul the rules governing the employment-based immigration process, arguing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027658,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027653\/revisions\/1027658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}