Penalty on US co for paying low wages to H-1B staff |
A Redmond-based information technology staffing company was asked to pay over $300,000 to its 12 H-1B employees for paying them far below their salary and has been imposed a penalty of over $45,000. The US Department of Labour Wage and Hour Division (WHD) during the investigation found the company, which has offices in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, violated the labour provisions of the H-1B visa program by paying its guest workers far below the required wages. Employers added 157,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate declined. As Fred Katayama reports, the report points to tightening labor conditions. As a result, People Tech Group Inc has been asked to pay its 12 employees $309,914 and has been slapped with a penalty of $45,564, it said. Investigators found that the company paid entry-level wages to H-1B computer analysts and computer programmers who performed the work of much more experienced employees and should have received higher prevailing rates, the Department of Labour said. The Group also did not pay the employees for the time when it failed to provide them work, as the law requires, the department said.
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