Yale University and 150 other colleges and universities nationwide have joined an amicus brief supporting a program that allows international students to gain work experience outside the classroom in their fields of study.Filed on June 21 in the U.S
By Mike Cummings
June 24, 2021
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Yale University and 150 other colleges and universities nationwide have joined an amicus brief supporting a program that allows international students to gain work experience outside the classroom in their fields of study.
Filed on June 21 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in litigation titled
Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the brief was filed in support of continuing Optional Practical Training (OPT), a federal program that provides temporary employment authorization to graduate and undergraduate students with F-1 visa status to gain practical training beyond their coursework.
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Contract workers at Google meet with VP Harris and secretary of labor
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Contract workers at Google who work through HCL met with Vice President Kamala Harris and US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh June 21 in Pittsburgh, the United Steel Workers union announced.
The contract workers are members of the USW. They voted to join the union’s Federations of Tech Workers in 2019 and are still working to negotiate their first contract. The group includes 80 tech workers at HCL who work alongside directly employed Google workers at a location in Pittsburgh.
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