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Fedgov gives more H-1B visas as U.S. tech worker layoffs climb.(Inside Track)(United States Citizenship and Immigration Services)(Brief article)
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on April 8 that it has received enough H-1B applications to meet the congressionally mandated cap of 85,000 H-1B visas for fiscal year 2009. The H-IB visas are given to foreign workers in "specialty occupations" (science, engineering, law, medicine, computer programming, etc.) where U.S. employers have filed petitions claiming there are not qualified U.S. applicants to fill the jobs. The total current 85,000 includes an annual 65,000 "cap" and an additional 20,000 exemptions for applicants with advanced degrees. If precedent holds, other exemptions will add tens of thousands more; in 2008 the number of H-1B visas, including exemptions, totaled about 122,000.
The 85,000 H-1B visas about ...
- CONCERN ABOUT MASS WORKER LAYOFFS PROVEN UNFOUNDED : MINISTER.
- News wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia) August 29, 2008 700+ words
...Minister Erman Suparno said concern about the possibility of mass worker layoffs as a result of the fuel oil price hikes had not materialized. "There were no mass worker layoffs because the problem could be handled and manged properly," the...
- 30 HOSPITALS HALT WORKER LAYOFFS.(CAPITAL REGION)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 21, 1994 700+ words
...money or improve services. Associated Press NEW YORK Thirty private hospitals in the New York area have agreed to suspend worker layoffs over the next four years in return for union acceptance of a wage freeze and a reduction in benefit costs, officials said...
- Precision Optics in 15% worker layoffs.
- Newspaper article from: Medical Device Daily January 26, 2004 700+ words
Precision Optics in 15% worker layoffs Precision Optics (Gardner, Massachusetts) reported that it has released five employees, a reduction of 15% in its full-time...
- ILC COMMENDS INDONESIA FOR PREVENTING MASS WORKER LAYOFFS.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News June 19, 2009 700+ words
...Labor Conference (ILC) held in Geneva earlier this month has commended Indonesia for having successfully prevented mass worker layoffs amid the global financial crisis, a minister said. "During the conference, Indonesia was considered successful in carrying...
- Worker layoffs are deplorable
- Newspaper article from: Concord Monitor October 17, 2009 700+ words
'Fiddling while Rome is burning." This well-known but historically inaccurate phrase seems appropriate when considering the state's budget woes. I highly recommend citizens review Gov. John Lynch's executive budget summary, which can be found at admin.state.nh.us/budget. My read tells me things are
- STATE WORKER LAYOFFS HINTED IN FISCAL CRISIS.(Main)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) January 7, 1989 700+ words
Byline: Richard Wexler Capitol bureau A top aide to Gov. Mario M. Cuomo said Friday that he "wouldn't that any attempt by the state Legislature to ease the pain of to local government would have to come out of the hides of stees. "In the past, when the state has faced enormous monetary problems
- STATE WORKER LAYOFFS ACROSS U.S. SHATTER THE MYTH OF JOB SECUR ITY.(Main)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) August 20, 1991 700+ words
Byline: Associated Press More than 14,000 state government workers around the nation have lost their jobs so far this year, and economists say as many as 100,000 could be out of work by year's end. In New York state, 5,300 have been laid off, with another 2,000 to be cut this year. The layoffs,
- FARM WORKER LAYOFFS.
- Newspaper article from: Caribbean Update January 1, 1998 700+ words
Caroni (1975) Ltd. will have to lay off 5,000 people in a three-year period starting from next year, according to former Agriculture Minister Keith Rowley, reports The Express newspaper (December 1, 1997). The company must set larger staff reduction targets over a shorter period to fulfill the
