This Pakistani is quite fair minded

by Rishi Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:28 pm

Given all of Pakistan’s regularly whetted nationalist gripes against India, it is easy to be smug about the misfortune of an Indian company at the heart of India’s technological success. Indeed, if interpreted on the letters of the law, Infosys was guilty, using one category of transporting alien bodies into America’s haloed soil instead of another and lying in the process to make it all work. A few ethical points can also be marked up on behalf of the fact that the imported workers were paid less than what they would have deserved under the H-1B visa process. All this is true; and there is the settlement document and the $34 million amount to prove it. A now chastised Infosys that employs 15,000 people in the United States is likely to be far more careful in the future. Notwithstanding the many (and far more artful) crimes of corporate America, this brown company will have to prove its ability to follow the visa regimes of a white world.

For countries birthing brilliant brown minds, relying on their brains and merit to participate and get ahead in world of corporate technology, the Infosys settlement is a setback. Corporations are quick to complain about the obstacles to their access to various markets in the developing world, but never a word is said about the global caste system that allows workers with equal merit born in one part of the world to be deemed more deserving of a job than those born in another. An Indian engineer can be easily thwarted in his ambitions by the lack of a visa, while an American one is deemed deserving of infinite legal protections. A brown company favoring brown workers is deemed discriminatory; the white whistleblower deemed worthy of millions in reparations. The brown workers are all sly and deceptive lawbreakers, guilty of trying to overcome the terrible misfortune of being born with a passport that does not allow them to flit here there and everywhere on the globe. Jack Palmer with his millions is the hero of the story; Infosys is the villain. All of it is yet another example of the global class system of workers, where the white, the western, are ultimately and always the lucky and the deserving — and now also the victims.

http://dawn.com/news/1053389/brown-workers-and-white-whiners-the-infosys-visa-fraud-case

by rawemotions Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:15 pm

Don't Pakistanis have anything else to do other than comment about Indian companies? I think Indian companies can do without the support of Pariah country in the world and worst Serial offender in Asia.

The problem is that same folks who write this article keep quiet when their taxes are used to fund Jamaat ud Dawah which has an agenda to destroy the key institution of India.

by Kris Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:15 am

Rishi wrote: A few ethical points can also be marked up on behalf of the fact that the imported workers were paid less than what they would have deserved under the H-1B visa process. All this is true; and there is the settlement document and the $34 million amount to prove it.

>>>>>He agrees Infosys is guilty.So what is the problem?

A now chastised Infosys that employs 15,000 people in the United States is likely to be far more careful in the future. Notwithstanding the many (and far more artful) crimes of corporate America, this brown company will have to prove its ability to follow the visa regimes of a white world.

>>>>So, corporate America has never been prosecuted? And this is a "Corporate America" vs. "Brown Company" issue?

For countries birthing brilliant brown minds, relying on their brains and merit to participate and get ahead in world of corporate technology, the Infosys settlement is a setback.

>>>> I am confused. if Infosys broke the rules, what is wrong with finding that company guilty? I hope Infosys and other Indian companies don't take up this character's implied offer of support in the name of "brown" solidarity. That will be one sure way of losing goodwill.

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