Sunday, February 8, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
New Bill to remove H1B Visa workers from US.?
I guess few of you should have the read about New Bill (law) that was passed in U.S. yesterday about H1B Visa workers in U.S. I received couple of emails asking about the new law that was passed.
Is it true?
I’m actually collecting questions like this and start wiring myth series. Its not actually true. You know when news gets passed around, everyone try to spice it up with small version of their story. That’s what happened to the news you heard. But, good thing - there was a bill that was passes in Senate yesterday about hiring H-1B visa workers. But, the bill is not about removing H1B Visa holders from U.S.
Why New H1B Visa Bill
U.S. Government is working a stimulus bill to spend $800 Billion USD to improve the U.S. Economy. Sme of that money will be given to banks and other companies which are in trouble. There is a huge list of companies receiving bailout money. More than dozen banks receiving the biggest rescue packages, totaling more than $150 billion, requested visas for more than 21,800 foreign workers over the past six years. New Bill was aimed to prevent those companies from hiring H1b workers. Since the bank bailout money was U.S. Tax Payers Money.
Details of new H1B Amendment
■Yesterday new H1B amendment was passes in U.S. Senate, but with changes. Here’s what the new rule says..
■New Rule didn’t bar the hiring of foreign workers, but proposed bill was to ban hiring of workers with H1b Visa.
■Any company receiving bailout money from U.S. will become H1B dependent company. Usually, a company will be called H1B dependent company if more than 15% of workers are in H1B visa.
■Any firm receiving TARP funds will be automatically considered H-1B dependent, regardless of the percentage of H-1B workers on the payroll.
■H-1B dependent has strict H1B Visa hiring rules to be followed, which include attesting to actively recruiting American workers; not displacing American workers with H-1B visa holders; and not replacing laid off American workers with foreign workers.
■H-1B dependent companies have to make very, very strict non-displacement attestations for 90 days before you employ an H-1B and for 90 days afterward as well,” If the employer finds any workers within this 90-day window before and after the H-1B worker is hired, then they are required to terminate the H-1B worker.
When will new Bill become law?
A bill becomes a law only after President signs it. but, before that both House and Senate have to approve it. Yesterday it was approved by Senate. So, still there is long way to go. The fate of this H-1B amendment rests on the fate of the stimulus bill before the Senate today, and if that’s approved it will head to a conference where other changes are possible.
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Coraline Trailer: Coraline Movie 3D Video
Henry Selick’s stop-motion animated Coraline 3D movie with the voice of Dakota Fanning as the title character is in theaters now. See photos and watch the mesmerizing Coraline movie trailer video here of the movie from the director of Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ that is already getting Oscar buzz.The highly anticipated feature length animation motion picture is based on Neil Gaiman’s New York Times best-selling short children’s novel of the same name (which is sometimes misspelled as ‘Caroline’). The movie was directed by Henry Selick who in addition to being director of Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ also directed ‘James and the Giant Peach.’ The movie from LAIKA Studio is the first stop-motion feature ever to be shot in stereoscopic 3D. It is being show in both conventional and digital 3D theaters.
In the movie, Coraline (Dakota Fanning) is a little girl who finds a secret door in her family’s new house that leads to an alternate reality, Other World, that is very similar to her own. In that other dimension, her parents, Other Mother and Other Father are different; notably they have black buttons for eyes. Although they shower her with gifts and affection, Coraline senses a sinister undercurrent. Other voice actors in the movie include Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ian McShane and Keith David.
The most recent trailer has been highly touted and celebrated for revealing an original and enticing movie. In the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, author Neil Gaiman appears at the beginning of the trailer to introduce us to the characters and circumstances by discussing the marvelous invention of buttons and koumpounophobia, the fear of buttons. It’s a masterstroke.
Remarkably in an era dominated by CGI animation, Coraline was crafted painstakingly in true stop motion. The director Harry Selick professes a lifelong affinity for stop motion animation films and acknowledges the impact that the movies of Ray Harryhausen and German animator Lotte Reiniger have had upon his work. In a recent interview, he discussed what it was like to create the movie.
Here are several photos and behind the scenes videos on the Coraline movie. More photos and the full-length theatrical Coraline trailer and the special Neil Gaiman trailer video are below.
