Trump’s plan for protecting IT jobs raises hopes, fears
President-elect Trump is threatening tariffs and promising H-1B visa reform, but may be offering carrots as well, namely tax incentives.
Stories by Patrick Thibodeau
Some tech firms welcome Trump’s H-1B reforms
IT services firms that hire U.S. workers and don't offshore work and are hopeful about President-elect Donald Trump's planned crackdown on H-1B visa use.
Sanders launches new attack on offshore outsourcing
Former presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce legislation to discourage companies from relocating jobs offshore.
Pelosi says UC IT workers are in ‘untenable position’
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is urging the University of California to drop plans to send some IT jobs offshore.
U.S. says cybersecurity skills shortage is a myth
The U.S. government has released what it says is myth-busting data about the shortage of cybersecurity professionals.
On first day in office, Trump to attack visas that ‘undercut the American worker’
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday sent out the strongest signal yet that the H-1B visa program is going get real scrutiny.
Trump's election sets stage for H-1B reform
President-elect Donald Trump gave laid-off IT workers something his rival did not during the campaign: A promise to reform the H-1B visa program.
A CIO rejects, for now, university’s IT offshoring plan
There are reservations within the University of California system about a plan to move IT work offshore and lay off employees.
What will Trump do with the H-1B visa?
President-elect Donald Trump, working with Congress, may try to make it harder and more expensive to hire H-1B workers. His intent would be to change the economics of visa usage and encourage employers to hire U.S. workers.
Trump tapped the viral anger over H-1B use
Donald Trump is the first major U.S. presidential candidate to focus on the use of the H-1B visa to displace IT workers. Hillary Clinton never mentioned the H-1B issue in this campaign, but she saw the problem.
Grassley criticizes university over its IT offshoring
A political backlash is growing over a plan by the University of California, San Francisco, to shift IT jobs overseas.
At campaign's end, Trump takes a swipe at IBM
In Minnesota, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump added IBM to the list of companies he criticizes for moving jobs offshore.
Infosys' U.S. workforce is mostly South Asian and no accident, plaintiffs allege
This week, plaintiffs filed a motion seeking class-action certification from 2009, and say the potential pool of people may be as large as 125,000.
CEO's message a jolt to IT workers facing layoffs
The layoff affects more than 500 IT workers in the infrastructure team at Health Care Service Corp.
China’s policing robot: Cattle prod meets supercomputer
The robot is linked to China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer, where it has access to cloud services for facial recognition and other tasks.