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| Sack foreigners first, senator asks |
| US senator has asked Microsoft Corp about its plans to slash up to 5,000 jobs,
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 24-January-2009
0:24:29 AM |
| A US senator has asked Microsoft Corp about its plans to slash up to 5,000 jobs, urging the world's biggest software company to preserve the jobs of Americans ahead of foreigners working on visas.
"I am concerned that Microsoft will be retaining foreign guest workers rather than similarly qualified American employees when it implements its layoff plan," Sen Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said in a Jan. 22 letter.
Microsoft shocked investors on Thursday when it released quarterly results that missed Wall Street expectations, announced up to 5,000 layoffs and said it would no longer give forecasts for the rest of the fiscal year.
The company has been a champion of expanding the H-1B visa program, a temporary visa program that lets American companies and universities hire foreign workers in a category considered by the Government to be a "specialty occupation".
Microsoft said late Friday that some of the people who lose their jobs would likely be non-Americans.
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