In a somewhat important development, a report from the concerned US’s organization has urged for improvement of the L-1 intra-firm transfer permit arrangement. Reportedly, it has urged for more thorough study of the new office submissions to cut-down scam and misuse and a steady enforcement of the anti job-shop laws, in the backdrop of extensive fears that some global outsourcing firms are employing the permit, to move cheaper employees from outside into the country.

The L-1 Permits are utilized by worldwide organizations with business in the country even while these firms are able to relocate employees from other nations to work in the foreign nation employing the L-1 Permits. Two kinds of L-1 Permits are up for grabs, namely, the L-1A Permits for managers which have a validity of 7 years, and the L-1B Permits for manpower which have expert knowledge. The latter has a validity period of 5 years.

Reportedly, an act passed during 2004 brought-in anti-job shop stipulations which were tailored to put-off global firms bringing employees to the US with the L-1 Permits before farming-out the services of the said employees to their customers as workers. (It is permitted for those in the US with the L-1 Permits to perform project work for customer groups in the country).

But, the report in question claims that a significant section of the L-1 Permits are still given to global outsourcing groups, and adds that against this backdrop, there is a widespread fear that the anti-job-shop laws are not being efficiently put into practice. Significantly, the report has forwarded as many as 10 proposals to make certain that the given provisions are duly implemented.