The U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend Microsoft and Adobe from its Permanent Labor Certification program on Thursday, Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said, as the Trump administration continues to take aim at immigration and foreign hiring programs ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Sonderling said the Labor Department won’t accept or process any new applications under the program for a host of companies, including Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro and HCL.
The secretary said Adobe and Microsoft were also suspended “due to multiple active federal investigations.”
“Since 2009, just these companies alone have requested almost 3 million foreign workers. They’ve received over 230,000 H-1B visas approvals and over 100,000 permanent labor certifications. That’s hundreds of thousands of jobs that were taken from American workers,” Sonderling said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/microsoft-adobe-green-card-labor-suspension.html
We have a program that gets abused here in Canada for temporary foreign workers.
You then walk into something like a tim Hortons and all their employees are from it.
If they actually paid a proper wage, people would work there, but they dont, then say we cant find people, and get to use this program.
Yup. Originally intended for genuinely temporary work like farm hands it has been exploited by other companies for years. Occasionally there’s talk of reform but it usually surface level.
Not surprising.
Let me guess- ‘temporary’ gets renewed every year for decades, right?