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H-1B visa holders are likely to get pink slips from Microsoft despite acknowledging that this category of workers has a significant contribution to the company's success. The company has recently announced some 5,000 jobs cut. The H-1B work visa program ...

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Microsoft will lay off H-1B workers as part of its recently announced plan to let go of 5,000 employees over 18 months, but it will continue to hire foreign workers as well, even though Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) insists that the software maker has ...

Microsoft's top lawyer informed a U.S. Senator Tuesday that when it comes to its layoffs, the software giant won't be cutting its visa-carrying foreign workers before it cuts U.S. citizens. Instead, the ax will fall where it's needed, Microsoft (NASDAQ: ...

Servicemembers recite their oath of U.S. citizenship in the Al Faw Palace rotunda at the Camp Victory Base Complex in Baghdad, March 3, 2009. In the 13th such ceremony in Iraq, 251 servicemembers from 65 countries became naturalized U.S. citizens. U.S. ...

A Canadian who demanded courtesy from a U.S. border security guard says he was pepper-sprayed and held in custody for three hours for asking the disrespectful officer to ?say please? when ordering him to turn his car off during a search. ?I refused ...

Source: Daily Pennsylvanian, U. Penn As a result of a last-minute amendment to the stimulus bill, some Penn students may find themselves out of a job come this summer. The amendment, which will affect any bank or company receiving money from the ...

(Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. will lay off H-1B workers as part of its recently announced plan to let go of 5,000 employees over 18 months, but it will continue to hire foreign workers as well, even though a U.S. senator insists that the software ...

Microsoft, which has recently announced shedding some 5,000 jobs, will be giving pink slips to H-1B visa holders too, despite acknowledging that this category of workers has a significant contribution to the company's success. Microsoft, in a letter to ...

Observing that the H-1B work visa programme helps hire the best available talent of the world, American software giant Microsoft has said H-1B visa holders has contributed significantly to its success. However, the company, which had recently announced ...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah in the West Bank on Wednesday. RAMALLAH, West Bank - A day after announcing a new diplomatic initiative in the ...

ore On This Story Related Topics Story Tools -+ Change font size Share This Story Story tools presented by Dan Janisse/Canwest News ServiceA spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said officers are trained on how to handle confrontation, and ...

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Washington: Microsoft, which has recently announced shedding some 5,000 jobs, will be giving pink slips to H-1B visa holders too, despite acknowledging that this category of workers has a significant contribution to the company's success. Microsoft, in a ...

The increasing violence that the drug cartels have been inflicting on Mexico is now making its way across the Rio Grande into the United States. And examples of the spillover are spreading and becoming ever more numerous, according to American officials ...

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Four Indian outsourcing companies, followed by Microsoft Corp., Accenture Ltd., Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., received the largest share of available H-1B visas for skilled workers in 2008, according to the latest data from ...

Immigration enforcement ran off the rails in the Bush era, when federal agents stormed factories to shackle workers and local authorities staged their own crackdowns with little or no oversight from Washington. It was a war without a plan, and it solved ...

I am trying to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the past eight years. Thus, I have chosen as my lead this proposition: Obama lied; the economy died. Obviously, I am borrowing this from the Democratic theme of ...