The Anti-H-1B visa bill has been launched in US and this has made the IT industry of India shaky. Lakhs of IT employees of Indian companies are facing job insecurity, as their jobs are in danger.
Legislation has been brought in by a bipartisan group consisting of two lawmakers in the US House of Representatives. Democratic Congressman Bill Pascrell from New Jersey and Republican Dana Rohrabacher from California have launched the ‘H-1B and L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2016’ and this bill forbids organizations from appointing “H-1B employees if they employ more than 50 people and more than 50 percent of their employees are H-1B and L-1 visa holders.”
If this legislation is accepted by the Congress then it may spell trouble for IT professionals. This bill may prevent the Indian IT companies from employing people on L1 and H-1B work visas.
Majority of popular IT companies in India, manage to gather revenue with the help of their employees travelling abroad to US on H-1B and L1 visas. This bill if passed by the Congress to become a law,
is definitely not good news for the IT business. The legislation will surely have an impact. Before Barack Obama, the President of US, formally attests this legislature, turning it into a law, it has to get the Senate’s approval. The two representative sponsors of the bill belong to states where there are plenty of Indian Americans.
America has high tech professional who are highly educated, skilled but unemployed.
Reports say that Congressman Pascrell has commented that “By ‘in-sourcing’ and exploiting foreign workers, some businesses are abusing the visa programmes and undercutting our workforce to reap the rewards. Without the critical reforms our bill proposes, American workers will continue to be unfairly displaced and visa workers will continue to be mistreated — both of which are unacceptable.”
