Thread regarding Weatherford International Ltd. layoffs

This should piss you off..

If you are a foreign professional looking for employment in the United States, Weatherford International Inc. may be a good place to start your job search. Located in Houston, Texas, Weatherford International Inc. submitted 70 H-1B Labor Condition Applications (LCA's) for the US Department of Labor to process in 2013, drastically more than other US companies.

It is important to keep in mind that the number of LCA's processed is not synonymous with the number of foreign professionals who end up obtaining an H-1B Visa. Once an application is processed, it must be certified by the US Department of Labor. Out of the 70 applications submitted by this company, the government certified 54. 16 were either withdrawn by the company and/or denied by the government.

Another reason to consider working at this company is the considerably high pay. The average salary of a foreign professional at Weatherford International Inc. is $96,579.5, which is 52% higher than the average salary for all H-1B job positions.

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http://www.dol.gov/wecanhelp/3rdparty.htm

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http://www.dol.gov/whd/flsa/HowToFileAComplaint-eng.pdf

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yep, just check with the VP of pressure pumping and all of his visa holding "managers" aka asshole buddies. They have let Americans go while keeping H-1B ex Schlumberger guys stay. The whole top of his org chart is now ex blue and H-1B. They are abusing the system every day and I plan to file a formal complaint with the US immigration authorities. Here is the definition "The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H). It allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker must either apply for and be granted a change of status to another non-immigrant status, find another employer (subject to application for adjustment of status and/or change of visa), or leave the U.S. The regulations define a "specialty occupation" as requiring theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor(1) including but not limited to biotechnology, chemistry, architecture, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, social sciences, medicine and health, education, law, accounting, business specialties, theology, and the arts, and requiring the attainment of a bachelor's degree or its equivalent as a minimum(2) (with the exception of fashion models, who must be "of distinguished merit and ability").(3) Likewise, the foreign worker must possess at least a bachelor's degree or its equivalent and state license, if required to practice in that field. H-1B work-authorization is strictly limited to employment by the sponsoring employer. The other thing is this guy continuously violates the Sarbanes Oxley act with regard to accounting and paying for items never received. Wonder why he hires his buddies?? With all of the original Weatherford folks out of the way they can cook it anyway they want. MB is his right hand man, a foreign national who has never worked in the US, it's no wonder pressure pumping has fallen and will never recover.

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