Tech Firm Fined For Paying Imported Workers $1.21 Per Hour

[ElNono]

An anonymous reader sends in news about a company that was fined for flying in "about eight employees" from India to work 120-hour weeks for $1.21 per hour (http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26778017/tech-company-paid-employees-from-india-little-1). Electronics for Imaging paid several employees from India as little as $1.21 an hour to help install computer systems at the company's Fremont headquarters, federal labor officials said Wednesday. "We are not going to tolerate this kind of behavior from employers," said Susana Blanco, district director of the U.S. Labor Department's wage and hour division in San Francisco.... An anonymous tip prompted the U.S. Department of Labor to investigate the case, which resulted in more than $40,000 in back wages paid to the eight employees and a fine of $3,500 for Electronics for Imaging.

[ElNono]

:lmao $3,500 fine... basically, if they get caught half the time, it's completely worth it for the employer

[boutons_deux]

:lmao $3,500 fine... basically, if they get caught half the time, it's completely worth it for the employer

yep, should be penatly something like 3x or 4x back wages, non tax-deductible.

[Wild Cobra]

yep, should be penatly something like 3x or 4x back wages, non tax-deductible.

No, at least 100 times.

3-4 times still makes the risk of getting caught worth it.

[baseline bum]

Fuck the fine, people should go to jail for that kind of shit.

[Wild Cobra]

Fuck the fine, people should go to jail for that kind of shit.
I can agree with that.

[TDMVPDPOY]

lol outsourcing...

[Nbadan]

EFI is a $109 Mil company. CEO "earned" $6 Mil salary and bonus


Electronics for Imaging is successful. The company earned $109 million last year and awarded CEO Guy Gecht with a pay package valued at nearly $6 million, including more than $1.2 million in salary and bonuses.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tech-firm-fined-paying-workers-121-hour-26405622

[DeadlyDynasty]

Still a better quality of life than they had in India.

[Winehole23]

illegal and immoral, but they're better off here, so fuck em.

[Blake]

Fuck the fine, people should go to jail for that kind of shit.

I agree, fuck the fine but instead of jail, make them pay those workers CEO level wages for a year or two.

[boutons_deux]

Anybody hear any Repugs bitching about $1.21 wages and nasty govt fining such a wonderful free market company?

It's the Repugs, candidates and elected, who want to kill the minimum wage (govt overreach, govt intrusion, market distortion) to let the "market (greedy, predatory employers)" determine wages.

$1.21/hour, or less, is what we get. Along with Repug-supported child labor

and how did that employer import these Indians? which visa status?

[ElNono]

Still a better quality of life than they had in India.

for the 4 months they were here anyways :lol

[boutons_deux]

for the 4 months they were here anyways :lol

who paid their plane tickets?

did they enter on tourist (can't work) 6-month visas?

[RandomGuy]

EFI is a $109 Mil company. CEO "earned" $6 Mil salary and bonus

.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/tech-firm-fined-paying-workers-121-hour-26405622

CEO "earned".... ROFL....

CEOs in this country are vastly overpaid.

[boutons_deux]

CEO "earned".... ROFL....

CEOs in this country are vastly overpaid.

and there's nothing anybody can do about it, certainly not any legislatures.