Obamacare Outsourced
The Obama administration has offshore outsourced Obamacare. They made Accenture the lead contractor for the website healthcare.gov. The contract is estimated to be worth $90 million and the original contractor, CGI Federal, is out. We pointed out earlier that the failed Obamacare website was poetic justice as CGI Federal is also an offshore outsourcer of U.S. jobs. But now the poster boy for labor arbitrage, offshore tax havens, and bloated, often failed government contracts is in charge, Accenture.
Accenture is one of the biggest offshore outsourcers of American jobs. In 2012 they used 4,037 H-1B Visas alone and are ranked #5 in using foreign guest workers to displace U.S. workers and offshore outsource jobs. The H-1B Visa is known as the offshore outsourcing Visa. Offshore outsourcers use this Visa in a notorious method to displace Americans and technology transfer large projects to cheap labor nations.
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Accenture, like most BPO offshore outsourcers, saves money by underpaying foreign guest workers they import. Typically they pay 25% less for their imported employees than the prevailing wage for a similar United States citizen worker. In 2005, with the corresponding H-1B Visa good until Q1 2013, Accenture had 12,684 H-1B foreign guest workers earning an average of $53,042 per year. This is far less than the median $80,000 salary the same job responsibilities and skills required would fetch for an American worker. Accenture is so bad, they literally paid a foreign guest worker $25,113 per year with the job title, Chief Programmer. Typically chief programmers make six figures in America. Accenture is systemic in their labor arbitrage of United States citizens. Of their imported H-1B foreign tech workers in 2005, they paid 15.3% less than $40,000 a year and 40% less than $60,000. This is way, way below the kind of salaries one would see for a highly trained, college educated technology professional.
The situation is so bad they block out American contractors from obtaining government contracts by undercutting labor costs in addition to lobbying and campaign contributions.
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I'll be interested to see if there is any substantive proof of incorrect information in this article from any Accenture employee that might post, now that CGI has been sent on their way (with $292 million bucks)...
If not, why is our own country pitting lower-paid foreign workers against us using our own tax dollars? Are the pizzas and greens fees they lobby for these contracts with worth that much more than our neighbors being able to feed and clothe their families, send their kids to school, pay for our public workers?
Really?
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