Stories by Patrick Thibodeau

Melania Trump’s H-1B controversy explained

Melanie Trump's visa use in the 1990s has come under scrutiny this week, but a quirk of the law does indeed allow fashion models to use an H-1B visa.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau05 Aug. 16 06:10

Google fires back at age discrimination lawsuit

Google, in a new federal court filing, is rebutting claims of age discrimination and its handling of two older job applicants who were rejected for jobs.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau02 Aug. 16 06:56

Democrats give thumbs up to Silicon Valley

It wasn't what Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday night on the stage of the Democratic National Convention that was important to Silicon Valley. His speech was mostly generalities and attacks on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. It was Bloomberg's presence that was the message.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau29 July 16 20:00

CSC announces layoffs in advance of HPE merger

A Computer Sciences Corp. spokesman, however, says the 500 layoffs are due to "the normal course of business and are unrelated to the proposed merger."

Written by Patrick Thibodeau29 July 16 06:00

Issa bill would kill a big H-1B loophole

Rep. Darrell Issa has rolled out a bipartisan bill that would make two key changes to the 1998 H-1B visa law.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau22 July 16 20:09

Rep. Pascrell's H-1B bill is a message to Democrats

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) introduced an H-1B reform bill that, he said, has little chance of being enacted this year. He said he proposed the bill to make the case for reform of the controversial visa.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau19 July 16 05:58

The H-1B positions of Clinton and Trump

With the political conventions about to get underway, it's a good time to take stock of where the major candidates stand.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau17 July 16 20:55

GE and Microsoft team on IoT platform

It will be easier to integrate tools such as Microsoft's Cortana, the intelligent personal assistant, with Predix, GE's industrial IoT system.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau14 July 16 06:07

Boston is nation’s top tech-talent exporter

The country's top small tech-labor market was Kansas City, Missouri, with a tech labor force at 48,500 and a five-year growth rate of 42 percent. It was closely followed by Charlotte, N.C.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau07 July 16 20:00

Google age-discrimination lawsuit may become monster

There's a motion to turn an existing lawsuit into a class action. People who interviewed in person for certain types of engineering jobs, were over the age of 40 at the time and were rejected could be eligible to join.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau30 June 16 19:48
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