Newark-based firm charged with violating (H-1B) immigration laws

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Source: Newark Star-Ledger

A Newark-based computer consulting company has agreed to pay more than $765,000 in back wages and penalties to workers for violating provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the U.S. Labor Department announced today.

The company, Peri Software Solutions Inc. and its owner, Saravanan Periasamy, sponsored foreign workers to work as programmer analysts across the country under a visa program known as H-1B. Companies can hire temporary workers with these visas for professional jobs and must pay the same wages as U.S. workers who perform the same type of work.

... “Peri is committed to exceeding whatever it takes to ensure that we are in full compliance,” Periasamy said in a statement. He also said the firm will launch a training program in an effort to boost the number of American employees at the company.

“As we move forward, Peri plans to develop new partnerships with the goal of creating more jobs and hiring more American workers,” he said.

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