This might be a little too late if you check out the stories under the related reading, as more employees are being hired outside the US at offices not in the US so perhaps this is not as big of an issue as it once was.  BD 

Courtney has asked the Government Accountability Office to assess whether the H-1B visa program, which is designed to help firms recruit small numbers of specialized workers, is being used to circumvent strict US labour laws and bring in many overseas staff.

The move follows reports that Pfizer is using large numbers of foreign workers at their preclinical R&D campuses in Groton and New London, Connecticut, in a effort to replace their local IT workforce, according to local newspaper The Day.

http://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Preclinical-Research/Call-for-probe-into-US-job-outsourcing-via-recruitment-of-overseas-staff

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