{"id":2432,"date":"2010-03-21T21:52:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2022-11-27T20:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T01:38:19","slug":"michigan-firms-barred-from-h-1bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/michigan-firms-barred-from-h-1bs\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Firms Barred From H-1B Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"eWeek\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eWeek<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eweek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-110804 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Michigan Firms Barred From H-1B's\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/recession-8.jpg?resize=75%2C75&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Michigan Firms Barred From H-1B's\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/recession-8.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/recession-8.jpg?w=110&amp;ssl=1 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a> is reporting that the <a title=\"Department of Labor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/WHD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wage and Hour Division<\/a> has debarred two Michigan-based firms for being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/regs\/compliance\/FactSheet62\/whdfs62S.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">willful violators<\/a> of laws that regulate <a title=\"H-1B visa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H-1B_visa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">H-1B visas<\/a> for foreign workers. During the debarment period, these companies are not allowed to apply for or obtain H-1B visas for foreign workers. These IT companies have &#8220;committed either a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/immigration\/H1BDebarment.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Labor Department statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Employer:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220401090803\/http:\/\/www.r-techgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R-Tech Group, Ltd<\/a>. (also known as R-Tech, Ltd.)<br \/>\n<strong>City:<\/strong> Keego Harbor, Michigan<br \/>\n<strong>Debarment Period:<\/strong> 1\/1\/2009 to 12\/31\/2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Employer:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amelectro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amtech Electrocircuits<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>City:<\/strong> Troy, Michigan<br \/>\n<strong>Debarment Period:<\/strong> 3\/1\/2008 to 2\/28\/2010<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rb-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Umm isn&#8217;t Michigan&#8217;s unemployment rate over 14%?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Wage and Hour Division has debarred two Michigan firms for being willful violators of H-1B visa laws<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3240,32,2158,164,916,19,12,37],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3240","tag-business","tag-fail","tag-fraud","tag-h-1b-visa","tag-michigan","tag-outsourcing","tag-recession"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117219,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/117219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}