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Programmers Guild Pushes for H-1B Transparency.(Kim Berry )
A request for the public release of data containing the names of the companies requesting H-1B temporary workers and the positions they are being hired for was filed in a public letter to the Department of Labor July 18 by the Programmers Guild, an IT advocacy group.
In the open letter to William Carlson, chief of the Division of Foreign Labor Certification, Programmers Guild President Kim Berry requested on behalf of the "displaced, unemployed, and underemployed U.S. tech workers" that the FY 2007 LCA (Labor Conditions Applications) database be made publicly viewable, so that U.S. tech workers can apply for these positions while they are still open.
The next batch of H-1B workers whose temporary visas have been approved will arrive on October 1.
Berry reminded Carlson in the letter that "although LCAs are public records, U.S. workers do not have access to these records," and likened the records' lack of public availability to "choosing to reserve 65,000 U.S. jobs exclusively for foreign workers."
Are "H-1B only" job ads discriminatory?
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Berry told eWEEK that "there is not law that they have to be viewable on the 'Foreign Labor Certification's' Web ...
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