The U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program on Thursday, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said, as the Trump administration continues to take aim at immigration and foreign hiring programs ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Sonderling said the Labor Department won’t accept or process any new applications under the program for a host of companies, including Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro and HCL.
The secretary said Adobe and Microsoft were also suspended “due to multiple active federal investigations.”
“Since 2009, just these companies alone have requested almost 3 million foreign workers. They’ve received over 230,000 H-1B visas approvals and over 100,000 permanent labor certifications. That’s hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers,” Sonderling said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/microsoft-adobe-green-card-labor-suspension.html
Does this mean they’ll be forced to hire locally with a fair wage, right? 😃
… They’ll hire locally at a fair wage… Right…? 😐
the fair wage will be defined by the market, and local will be within the country
Yes, because the market is such a free place bereft of oligarch control.
No.
I worked for a Fortune 100 company that hired lots of H-1B workers. The company loved them not only because they settled for less money, but because they worked ridiculous hours and could not easily change jobs. Those H-1B workers created big problems for American employees.
H-1B employees did not have family in the US, did not have a social life, and routinely worked 100 hours a week. Most American employees had wives, children, relatives and outside activities, and could not and would not work those kinds of hours. 60-70 hours a week was typical.
When H-1B employees work
30%-40%43%-67% more hours their work production will almost always exceed that of their American counterparts, and that’s exactly what happened.When peer-ranking and reviews were done the H1-B employees exceeded the raw metrics of their American counterparts and ranked higher. It was common for Americans to be forced out because they refused to work 100 hours a week and management did not give a damn about their quality of life.
There may be situations where companies use the H1-B program because they cannot find employees with the right skill sets, but I saw none of those. Instead the program was used to source people one step up from indentured servants.
Slaves. They were slaves. That’s literally the entire point of H1-B visas.
Anyway, there is no way Microsoft will respect this. Even with remote work, it would kill them.
Time to strike the fear into the hearts of corporations again.
Shit yourself to death Microslop
This isn’t even the first time they’ve done corrupt shit like this. They got caught colluding with Apple and I think IBM to keep programmers salaries deflated by not hiring them when they left one of the other companies.
Thankfully they got in trouble for that, but not enough trouble. Bill Gates is a sick, sadistic creep (read up on his affair, connections to Epstein and how he tried to drug his wive with medications to treat an STI he gave her.)
Preach! I’ve hated Microslop for years, if anything I’m happy that the rest of the world has been waking up to it all
Probably helps that everything post Windows 7 has sucked.
Ngl, I got sucked into the whole ‘PedOS 10 will be the last version of PedOS! We’ll just keep pushing updates!!!’
And we all know how that went 💀
It’s all trash. They should’ve just charged us to continue to maintain win 7. I’d have bought another license for an additional 10 years of regular updates.
They’ve received over 230,000 H-1B visas approvals and over 100,000 permanent labor certifications. That’s hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers,” Sonderling said.
That’s not how that works. If they wanted to take those jobs from Americans, they’d just open an office in that country… and probably save a lot of money doing so.
Americans either didn’t want or didn’t qualify for these jobs, no employer goes through the visa process to stick it to Americans, it’s a giant pain in the ass.
This is a fun little fault line, because leftists can take both sides. They can be for it because obviously America First is some racist bullshit. Or they can be against it, because H1B’s are used by evil corporations to depress wages.
Anyway, from what I’ve read, and from what I know how the world works, the latter option is much more convincing. And it’s buttressed by my working for a very large corporation that had its entire IT Support staff come from India, including entry-level support staff that could easily have been filled by native workers.
And, that said, I think the dividing line between authoritarianism and fascism might have something to do with fascists being willing to lose money for corporations, and this tells me that we are definitevely entering an explicitly fascist era, so I am not celebrating.
The tech offices in Toronto and Vancouver have grown a lot over the years as the US makes it more difficult to bring foreign workers in (including Canadians). At least in Vancouver that has led to quite a tech boom, and it certainly isn’t just foreign workers getting jobs.
It’s kind of funny though because that is how it started. Offices that were just temporary stops for Indian and Chinese (mostly) devs while they waited for an H1B.
There are benifits to working on the same campus. Though the problem with trying to set up office overseas is now you have to flex to their cultural expectations have work with their legal frameworks. You may have to navigate their bribery/lobbying system as well, which might require even more overhead. All of which duplicative if they have to have that somewhere else in order to leverage the much more lucrative investment markets.
These are for profit companies the general motivation for them to do anything is to maximize the extraction of value. You’re right, they aren’t anti American nor pro immigrant. In a different geopolitical and economic market they would gladly pay warlords to maintain an active slave population as long as doesnt personally effect their social lives and the profit margins were wider then the h1b1 program.
Lies.
