A nice change of pace from our typical corporate lobbyist press releases is in the news. Finally some legal action on an exploitative H-1B body shop.

Following a consent order obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday in New Jersey, Peri Software Solutions Inc. and its owner, Saravanan Periasamy, have agreed to pay $638,449 in back wages and interest to 67 workers for violating the H-1B provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The Newark Company sponsored the H-1B non-immigrant workers to work as programmer analysts across the country. Under the order, Peri Software Solutions Inc. and Periasamy also must pay $126,778 in civil money penalties and interest for failing to provide notice of the filing of labor condition applications at each place where any H-1B worker was to be employed and for filing lawsuits against H-1B workers for early cessation of employment. The company and Periasamy will be debarred from participating in the H-1B program for one year.

What's kind of pathetic is they would only be barred for one year. If someone is doing such egregious violations how come they are not just barred forever?