[RogtamBar]

Some fine corruption there.

What good are insane labor costs if people can't actually benefit from them -$52 an hour? Isn't that like $100k per year? And another $42 for pension. Now I don't wonder why they're bringing in foreign labor force. SAP developers don't earn that much in eastern Europe, and in the US all sheet metal grunt labor can.

Also the company allegedly paid them about the same they'd get in Slovenia. Genius, really, but stinks somewhat. In eastern Europe people go abroad to work, but usually because you can earn a multiple of what you'd get at home. Double or triple or more.

And how come they can even try this crap, import a hundred foreign laborers and employ them on invalid visa?

Local PD never checked their papers or queried Immigration on that? No one cares once they get cleared?

[jsprogrammer]

Local PD can't just check someone's papers in the US. The law is such that it is illegal to employ someone "not eligible to work", so it is really up to the employer to enforce the law. Government would only become involved to prosecute the employer for breaking the law once it was known (and only if there are resources to merit enforcement) that illegal behavior occurred.

[dragonwriter]

> The law is such that it is illegal to employ someone "not eligible to work", so it is really up to the employer to enforce the law.

Actually, it is illegal to employ someone without the employee and employer both completing the relevant portions of the I-9 form, which requires the employee to present to the employer certain documentation of eligibility to work.

In addition to investigations and enforcement actions stemming from information raising suspicion of a violation, the government can conduct audits (administrative inspection) of I-9 compliance, which need not be based on any suspicion.

[jsprogrammer]

According to the I-9 form, submission of required information is voluntary, though an employer may be later be applied penalties if they are unable to prove that they determined eligibility.

[mc32]

True. Police don't typically get involved in immigration status in the US as they do in China or Japan [or other places, which I may not be familiar with] I was made aware the police would raid places which had foreign workers on a periodic basis --so even if you had a proper visa, if the employer was over their visa quota you could get kicked out --the employer would have to fire you to come under compliance and you'd lose your visa sponsorship and have to leave. It was fun having to wait out police immigration raids, sometimes looking for kickback to not look too hard for the foreigners.