https://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm?event=ehLCJRExternal.dspLCRLanding
Check out the link above. IBM is still sponsoring H1B visas and Green Cards. Under Case Type drop down PERM is for Green Cards.
How can they sponsor H1Bs and Green Cards when so many people have been laid off? IBM has to certify that there are not enough U S citizens to fill these jobs.
You can read the TPP here: https://ustr.gov/tpp/#text
Been going on for years. All big companies doing it. Undercut the more expensive US citizens. There is no shortage its all about cheap labor. Waut until the TPP gets passed no limit tgen. We cant even read whats in the TPP its kept secret. Had enough ? Vote Trump America First ! Stop the corruption.
It's not only IBM abusing H1B visa Disney let go of 250 employees after training their replacements
http://theindependent.sg/former-disney-employee-i-was-replaced-by-a-less-skilled-foreign-it-worker/
good link - thanks OP
@ctg I can confirm what you are saying - once they flag it as a GR there is no way that an US resource can get it. In short, as they are budgeting things, they calculate a lower rate, and they know that it's going to be India in 90% of cases - so, really, they have baked in the budget that it'll be a 50K/yr position, fully loaded and will all expenses paid, so there is no way a US based resource would fit into that budget.
So, from the get go, all of us are excluded, and they know someone will be brought from offshore. This is rampant in GBS but in other parts of the company as well. I've worked on ERP projects all my life, and this is kind of how we make money. You can bitch about it all day, but it was Infy and Wipro who came up with this concept and undercut is in the early 2000s, we just could not compete with them as they were 70% less expensive - by now, we've figured it out too so we are playing too. Check out Accenture on that doleta site, 1000 positions in 30 days, it's nuts, they are in it completely too.
Again, we can bitch and whine about it all we want (trust me, I want to scream, that's how angry I am) but the only way to stop this is to have it fixed on the legislative side, but since every single politician is bought and they are all in bed with IT companies, I am not even sure that anything like this would be possible.
It's so utterly f---ed up to the core...
f---ers
Applied for many internal positions listed in the Opportunity Marketplace of IBM, only to be told "oh, that's a GR position." What's a GR position you ask, : Global Resource. Is not the US employee a global resource I then asked. Only to be told, it's for everyone except US employees. This happened multiple times.
Guru! not only IBM but all the companies has to showcase that there is no one in US for that position and thats why they are going for foreign employees. Do you think all employers really follow that? does Infosys, TCS, Wipro post their openings here and not finding any single US workers eligible for that position, then go for foreign workers. It is all known to the government and government officials, they simply allow all these to keep their earnings going at least via the Visa fees, processing fees, TAX and blah blah blah. They dont really care about the US workers and their life. You go with the proofs against IBM and submit it to the officials, dont waste the time here.