Want Fries with that Visa Plan?. Gaiutra Bahadur.
by Bahadur, Gaiutra; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 53Business. Publisher: Philadelphia Inquirer, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Exchange of persons programs | Internship programs | Visas | Wendy's International IncDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Voicu Bogdan came to the United States two years ago thinking he had signed up for management training that would launch him on a career in tourism at home in Romania. Instead, the college graduate cooked burgers and swabbed floors for $7 an hour at a Wendy's in Paoli, Pa. He said he sometimes worked more than 50 hours a week without overtime pay." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) The article sheds light on workers' complaints that "point to a chink in a federal program that last year [2003] brought more than 200,000 au pairs, camp counselors, teachers, and other foreign citizens to the United States under J-1 visas. Both pro- and anti-immigration groups say employers increasingly abuse the gray areas of the Exchange Visitor Program to circumvent prevailing wage and other labor laws."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Want Fries with that Visa Plan?, Aug. 29, 2004; pp. E1+.
"Voicu Bogdan came to the United States two years ago thinking he had signed up for management training that would launch him on a career in tourism at home in Romania. Instead, the college graduate cooked burgers and swabbed floors for $7 an hour at a Wendy's in Paoli, Pa. He said he sometimes worked more than 50 hours a week without overtime pay." (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) The article sheds light on workers' complaints that "point to a chink in a federal program that last year [2003] brought more than 200,000 au pairs, camp counselors, teachers, and other foreign citizens to the United States under J-1 visas. Both pro- and anti-immigration groups say employers increasingly abuse the gray areas of the Exchange Visitor Program to circumvent prevailing wage and other labor laws."
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