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USA - May 13 2013
A comprehensive new Senate immigration bill includes provisions governing the award of nonimmigrant visas for highly skilled workers (H-1B visas)…
USA - August 1 2012
Amid escalating election year tension between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of offshore outsourcing, on July 19, 2012 the Senate killed a White House-supported bill aimed at encouraging U.S. companies to bring overseas jobs back to the United States.
USA - May 24 2012
In an effort to make offshoring less attractive to businesses and to increase the number of jobs available in the United States, Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-N.J.), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, jointly introduced a bill on May 8, 2012, that would give a tax incentive to companies that move business activities and jobs back to the U.S. from foreign countries, while penalizing companies that move jobs and business functions overseas.
Philippines, USA - May 3 2012
At the urging of Reps. Timothy Bishop (D-N.Y.) and Walter Jones (D-N.C.), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has suspended funding for a program under which Filipino students trained to work in various industries, including offshore call centers serving U.S. companies.
USA - April 12 2012
Science Applications International Corp (SAIC) has agreed to pay more than $500 million in fines and penalties to settle federal charges alleging that the outsourcing company overcharged the city of New York for work and ignored kickbacks on its CityTime project, an employee time-management system that ran more than $500 million over budget.
