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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1435105" data-attributes="member: 12952">Silicon Valley Company Caught Paying Foreign Workers $1.21/Hr After $200M QuarterA Silicon Valley tech company that reportedly made $200 million last quarter was importing foreign workers from India and paying them $1.21 an hour. According to the Labor Department, &quot;about eight employees of Fremont-based Electronics For Imaging [EFI] were flown in from India and worked 120-hour weeks to help with the installation of computers at the company&#039;s headquarters.&quot; NBC Bay Area <a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Fremont-Tech-Company-Paid-Workers-121-An-Hour-US-Dept-of-Labor-280148082.html" target="_blank">noted</a> that &quot;the employees were paid their regular hourly wage in Indian rupees, which translated to $1.21.&quot; EFI claimed it &quot;unintentionally overlooked laws that require even foreign employees to be paid based on local US standards.&quot; The company reportedly must pay &quot;$40,000 in back wages to the employees&quot; and was fined $3,500. Even though there is a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/12/CBS-Census-Data-Show-US-Doesn-t-Have-Shortage-of-STEM-Workers" target="_blank">surplus</a> of American high-tech workers, high-tech companies continue to clamor for more guest-worker visas to lower the wages of their workers. Companies like Microsoft have lobbied for massive increases in foreign workers even while laying off 18,000 American workers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1435105, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Silicon Valley Company Caught Paying Foreign Workers $1.21/Hr After $200M Quarter[/B] [B][SIZE=5][B]A Silicon Valley tech company that reportedly made $200 million last quarter was importing foreign workers from India and paying them $1.21 an hour. [/B][/SIZE] According to the Labor Department, "about eight employees of Fremont-based Electronics For Imaging [EFI] were flown in from India and worked 120-hour weeks to help with the installation of computers at the company's headquarters." NBC Bay Area [URL='http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Fremont-Tech-Company-Paid-Workers-121-An-Hour-US-Dept-of-Labor-280148082.html']noted[/URL] that "the employees were paid their regular hourly wage in Indian rupees, which translated to $1.21." EFI claimed it "unintentionally overlooked laws that require even foreign employees to be paid based on local US standards." The company reportedly must pay "$40,000 in back wages to the employees" and was fined $3,500. Even though there is a [URL='http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/12/CBS-Census-Data-Show-US-Doesn-t-Have-Shortage-of-STEM-Workers']surplus[/URL] of American high-tech workers, high-tech companies continue to clamor for more guest-worker visas to lower the wages of their workers. Companies like Microsoft have lobbied for massive increases in foreign workers even while laying off 18,000 American workers. [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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