Federal law
Know your rights
It is
illegal
for your employer to tell you you can't discuss wages with co-workers. This applies to not only
employee handbooks, but managers forbidding the sharing of salary information in written or verbal form.
Know your enemy
Organizations like the ITAA have been working overtime passing laws bad for people with IT jobs.
We need to help strengthen the organizations which fight the ITAA's proposals.
H1-B
The H1-B immigration policy in place is the one which the well-financed ITAA lobbied for. It is one good for large
corporations, but is not good for engineers who have an American citizenship or green card. In fact, it is not good
for the H1-B workers either, they and their organizations complain that their inability to change jobs while working at
a company during a green card application, keeps them in a semi-indentured state. We want to drastically lower the
H1-B visa limit, but this does not mean we are anti-immigrant, we have no opposition to people coming in and working with
a green card, just on coming in and working on an H1-B visa.
Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage - Professor
Norm Matloff's excellent paper on the H1-B situation and how it effects IT workers
ZaZona website park - Interesting anti-H1-B site. Has a searchable database of H1-Bs by
Employer or City/State, as well as other information about H1-B issues.
*UPDATE* - There is a
great bill in Congress, HR 3222, which limits H1-B visas during periods of high unemployment. Visit our page on this issue.
FLSA
FLSA is a law that protects workers, but this protection has been slowly stripped for "computer professionals" since
1990. Guess who is behind that? Yup, the ITAA.
Section 1706
This is something that was slipped into the tax code in 1986. It's purpose is to screw over independent computer consultants
in favor of body shops. Guess who has been propping it up? Yup, the ITAA again. Also an organization called the NTSA which
represents body shops.
RMP Consulting has a page which mentions the effects of this.
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