Tech companies accused of bending H-1B rules with newspaper job listings

Source: msn/Newsweek

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Companies employing H-1B foreign workers seeking a green card are required to advertise roles to American-born workers, but those job ads in local newspapers are allegedly targeting immigrants instead. In recent months, blue-chip tech companies like OpenAI and Instacart have posted listings in the San Francisco Chronicle, with applicants urged to send resumes to immigration or "global mobility" departments.

Under the Department of Labor's rules, roles have to be listed publicly, including in at least two major Sunday newspapers, in this case the Sunday edition of the Chronicle. Employers also have to list the roles on a state workforce agency site, internally at the company itself and two other advertising methods of their choice.

"Americans are not aware that major companies are routinely discriminating against them for the simple fact of being Americans in their own country," the team behind Jobs.Now, a website seeking out H-1B roles to share them with Americans, told Newsweek on condition their identities were kept anonymous.

"At a time when unemployment for college graduates is shifting sharply upward, it is important to call out hiring discrimination that could keep Americans unemployed."

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