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To: TigerPaw who wrote (455239)	9/9/2003 10:19:59 AM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Oh, of course. God forbid if Dell had to pay some benefits. How many RR/Austin and Nashville based jobs do you estimate are being eliminated here? And wat are the functions? Sales? Tech support? lb

To: TigerPaw who wrote (455239)	9/9/2003 11:21:40 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 769670

They don't even want the workers to be official employees. If the indian replacements are "3rd parties", try to find out the visa situation, if you can. Neither the H1-B nor the L1 were designed to be used to bring indian labor over to the US for a month so that they could learn how to do a job overseas. The new L1 visa legislation put forth in congress says L1s cannot be used (going forward) with "3rd parties". L1s will still exist but only for their intended purpose which is for multinationals to host employees between countries. The proposed cap is 22k/year, there is no cap now. I would say there are many high tech companies that are currently using thousands of L1s just within ONE COMPANY to transfer work to india. As far as the H1-B, I doubt Dell would embark upon that for an offshore transfer, because they require paperwork and sponsorship. The bill on the table for this visa is just to shut it off.