Specifically. the institute asked the Secretary of Labor to determine whether Edison. the foreign consulting companies. or any of the parties involved in these layoffs violated the requirements that the hiring of HlB workers not "adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers comparably employed." I echo the request of the Economic Policy Institute. The prohibition on adversely affecting U.S. workers can reasonably be applied to situations. such as in the Edison case. where the HlB workers are contractors at a worksite rather than employees. I also draw your attention to a powerful February 16 Los Angeles Times editorial entitled "End HlB visa programs abuse." The Los Angeles Times calls Edisons action "part of a yearslong trend among companies of misusing HlB visas to undercut wages and offshore highpaying American jobs." The Los Angeles Times concludes that the HlB program. although perhaps wellintentioned. is "broken" and that "Congress needs to fix it." And. of course. I could not agree more. as evidenced by all the amendments I offered in 2013 on the immigration bill. This situation with Southern California Edison is not new. It is happening time and time again.
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