US raps firm for back wages of RP workers

April 22, 2008  --  Got something to say?
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NEW YORK CITY - A US medical staffing firm has been charged with violating a foreign labor program after it allegedly owed almost $3-million back wages to its Filipino workers, the US Department of Labor said. The New York-based Advanced Professional Marketing Inc. and its president, Marissa Beck, were charged by the department with violating provisions of an immigration law that authorized employers to bring non-immigrant workers into the United States under the H-1B program.

An investigation found that 156 H-1B guest workers from the Philippines were owed almost $3 million in back wages, the department said in a statement. The company employed the H-1B workers primarily as physical therapists in hospitals and other medical facilities in the New York metropolitan area. The labor department sent a “determination letter” enumerating the results of the probe on March 11, assessing penalties totaling $512,000 for the alleged violations by the company. It also directed the company and Beck to return the owed wages to the workers. The H-1B program permits employers to temporarily hire foreign workers for jobs in the United States in professional occupations such as computer programmers, engineers, physicians, and teachers. H-1B workers must be paid at least the same wage rates as are paid to US workers who perform the same types of work or the prevailing wages in the areas of intended employment.

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