Microsoft layoffs add more fuel to H-1B fire

Microsoft, which plans to cut up to 5,000 employees over the next 18 months, said last week that a "significant number" of the first 1,400 people being let go are foreign workers who are in the U.S. on visas. The software vendor wouldn't be more specific, though. And despite one U.S. senator's demands, there are no federal laws that require companies to lay off H-1B holders before U.S. workers.

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