In a blow to Indian IT professionals looking at the U.S. job market, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that prevents federal agencies from hiring or outsourcing foreign workers, primarily those with H visas. -1B, hired.
The move came more than a month after the Trump administration suspended H-1B visas along with other types of work visas abroad until June 2020 to protect American workers in an election year. crucial. The new restrictions took effect on June 24.
The most sought after among IT professionals in India, the H1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to hire foreign workers in specialized occupations that require theoretical or technical experience.
Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.
"Today I am signing an executive order to ensure that the federal government lives by a very simple, more American rule," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office of the White House before signing the order against hiring headlines. H1B visas for federal contracts.
Trump told reporters that his administration will not tolerate the firing of hardworking Americans in search of cheap foreign labor.
"As we speak, we are finalizing the H-1B regulation so that no American worker is ever replaced. H-1B should be used for the highest-paid talent to create American jobs, not as cheap job programs and destroy American jobs," said the president. who was surrounded by the Cabinet Room table with individuals campaigning against labor outsourcing.
These included Sara Blackwell, founder and president of the Protect US Workers organization in Florida; Jonathan Hicks, a software engineer at the Tennessee Valley Authority; and Kevin Lynn, founder of the Pennsylvania-based US Tech Workers.
The executive order requires all federal agencies to complete an internal audit and assess whether they meet the requirement that only US citizens and nationals be appointed to competitive service. As a result, the Department of Labor will also finalize guidelines to prevent H-1B employers from moving H-1B workers to other employers' workplaces to displace American workers.
Trump's order follows the federally owned Federal Valley Authority (TVA) announcement that it will outsource 20 percent of its technology jobs to companies based in foreign countries.
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