{"id":897787,"date":"2025-01-20T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T05:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=897787"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:13:14","slug":"google-microsoft-tesla-and-other-companies-cutting-jobs-should-not-be-allowed-to-hire-on-h-1b-visa-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/20\/google-microsoft-tesla-and-other-companies-cutting-jobs-should-not-be-allowed-to-hire-on-h-1b-visa-bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Microsoft, Tesla and other companies cutting jobs should not be allowed to hire on H-1B visa: Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to the Laken Riley Act aimed at reforming the H-1B visa program, arguing it primarily serves to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign guest workers. He contends these workers are often exploited, akin to indentured servants. \u201cThe main function of the H-1B programme is not to hire &#8216;the best and the brightest&#8217; but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with hundreds of thousands of lower-paid guest workers from abroad who are often treated as indentured servants. The cheaper it is to hire guest workers, the more money the multi-billionaire owners of large corporations make,\u201d Sanders, 83, said on the Senate floor earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to the Laken Riley Act aimed at reforming the H-1B visa program, arguing it primarily serves to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign guest workers. He contends these workers are often exploited, akin to indentured servants. \u201cThe main function of the H-1B programme is not to hire &#8216;the best and the brightest&#8217; but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with hundreds of thousands of lower-paid guest workers from abroad who are often treated as indentured servants. The cheaper it is to hire guest workers, the more money the multi-billionaire owners of large corporations make,\u201d [&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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897787","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=897787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}