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InternetNews May 25, 2007 Roy Mark	Senate Votes to Hike H1-B Visa Fees Amendment to immigration bill draws sharp opposition from tech coalition.
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Global Services May 27, 2007 Shyamanuja Das	Protectionism v2.0: Anti-offshoring or Anti-Indian? Two members of U.S. Senate have sent out letters to nine Indian tech companies demanding to know how they are using the H-1B visas issued to them.
InternetNews May 15, 2007 Roy Mark	H1-B Visa Reform Gains More Support The legislative agenda for H1-B visa reform in Congress grew more crowded today with another proposal to increase the number of skilled foreign workers available to the U.S. workforce.
InternetNews April 4, 2007 Roy Mark	H1-B Visas: One And Done One day after the opening of the H1-B visa program process, the 2008 allotment of 85,000 H1-B visas is already gone.
InternetNews December 31, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Is Microsoft Planning Its First-Ever Layoffs? Rumors have been swirling for several weeks that Microsoft plans big layoffs of its own to be announced on or about Jan. 15.
BusinessWeek December 10, 2009 Moira Herbst	Still Wanted: Foreign Talent -- and Visas With the U.S. jobless rate at 10%, continued hiring of workers from abroad may stoke controversy.
Global Services July 23, 2007 Juhi Bhambal	Temp. Visas: Outsourcing's Thorny Issue As two Senators charge tech companies of bringing cheap foreign workers to the U.S., costing Americans their jobs, the thorny issue of supposed visa abuse once again mars an otherwise rosy outsourcing story. We trace the events of the last two months.
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CFO February 1, 2009 Kate O'Sullivan	How to Talk about Layoffs Most CFOs say that making job cuts is the single most difficult part of their jobs, but there are ways to manage this painful process more effectively.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2009 Selena Maranjian	Are Layoffs Cutting Fat or Muscle? Some layoffs can be effective, and others counterproductive.
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BusinessWeek October 1, 2009 Hamm & Herbst	America's High-Tech Sweatshops U.S. companies may be contributing unwittingly to the exploitation of workers imported from India and elsewhere by tech-services outfits.
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2009 Sander A. Flaum	The Unkindest Cut Layoffs are raging through the economy. But do they actually affect the bottom line?
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BusinessWeek January 17, 2008 Jay Greene	Case Study: Microsoft's Canadian Solution Microsoft opened an office in Richmond, B.C., where it hopes to place hundreds of workers unable to obtain visas a few miles south in the U.S.
InternetNews March 12, 2008	Gates Wants More Professional Visas Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates asked Congress on Wednesday for more visas for skilled professionals, echoing arguments often made by many in the tech sector.
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