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11-23-2005, 12:00 AM #1
Firm agrees to pay $2.25 million in back wages to workers
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Firm agrees to pay $2.25 million in back wages to workers from India
November 22, 2005
By Jewel Gopwani
Free Press Business Writer
Bingham Farms-based Computech Inc will pay $2.25 million in back wages for failing to adequately pay 232 employees, according to a settlement between the computer staffing firm and the U.S. Department of Labor.
In one of the Midwests largest immigration law settlements, Computech must also pay $400,000 in fines to the labor department for failing to pay workers for full 40-hour weeks, even when they were not on the job, a requirement for companies who bring immigrants to work in the United States.
The employees were brought into the country, mainly from India, legally on temporary H-1B visas. Such visas give immigrants who hold bachelor's degrees permission to work in the United States in so-called professional occupations, such as technology or health care.
According to labor law, those employees are entitled to a generally accepted wage for computer programmers for about 40 hours a week, even when they do not have assignments. The aim of the law, immigration law experts say, is so companies have no financial incentive to hire immigrants instead of U.S. workers.Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at http://eepurl.com/cktGTn
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