Foreign H-1B visa workers are “vastly underpaid” compared to their American counterparts doing the same work, researchers have found.
The Economic Policy Institute research, conducted partially by Ron Hira, who is considered the leading expert on fraud and abuse within the H-1B visa program, reviewed wage data from HCL Technologies, which is India’s third-largest outsourcing firm and whose clients include Microsoft, Disney, Boeing, FedEx, Google, T-Mobile, and Keurig Dr. Pepper, among others.
“H-1B workers both hired in India and in the U.S. are shown to be vastly underpaid compared with their U.S. citizen and permanent resident counterparts not hired with H-1B visas,” the research found when reviewing data from HCL Tech:
According to HCL’s own calculations, the firm systematically pays H-1B workers much less than its U.S. workers — as much as 47% — contravening…
