Last year, Reliant reversed itself and decided to take the outsourced work back in-house. Last summer, the utility began advertising for IT workers, and posted nine notices of intent with the U.S. Department of Labor to hire H-1B visa holders for some of these positions. The intent notices, part of the DOL’s certification process, were leaked to the Programmers Guild.
The guild promptly criticized the company for its plan to hire foreign workers, noting that Reliant had received $20 million in October in federal stimulus money to fund electric grid modernization projects.
Reliant hired H-1B visa holders mostly to fill software engineering jobs at its Houston facilities, according to DOL documents. Salaries for those jobs ranged from $72,000 to $95,000. The company also hired an H-1B visa holder as a database administrator at a salary of $80,000. A Reliant spokeswoman, Pat Hammond, said the H-1B employees hired by Reliant had previously been employed by the outsourcer under the canceled contract.
Saturday 30 January 2010
Reliant Energy takes back outsourced IT projects ☀
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