{
  "id": 13016740,
  "title": "\"Indentured Servants\": Vance On Microsoft Hiring Foreign Workers Under H-1B",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/indentured-servants-vance-on-microsoft-hiring-foreign-workers-under-h",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-09T03:19:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NDTV",
    "slug": "ndtv",
    "url": "https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-vice-president-jd-vance-on-microsoft-hiring-foreign-workers-under-h-1b-indentured-servants-perm-programme-12159524"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "US Vice President JD Vance has announced that Microsoft is being suspended from a program allowing companies to apply for green cards for skilled foreign workers with H-1B visas. According to Vance, Microsoft abused the visa system by laying off American workers and replacing them with foreign workers.\n\nMicrosoft laid off 6,000 US workers last year, while obtaining 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards, as per Vance. He described H-1B visa holders as \"foreign indentured servants\".\n\nVance stated that the government wants companies like Microsoft to thrive in the US, but not at the cost of American workers. The suspension of Microsoft from the PERM program was announced at a news conference.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "Trump admin suspends green cards to Microsoft as Vance accuses the company of replacing laid-off workers with ‘foreign indentured servants’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/trump-admin-suspends-green-cards-to-microsoft-as-vance-accuses-the",
        "published": "2026-10-08T20:09:41.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "‘Hire great American workers’: Vance targets Microsoft in H-1B visa crackdown",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/hire-great-american-workers-vance-targets-microsoft-in-h-1b-visa",
        "published": "2026-10-09T02:21:35.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "Donald Trump awards Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hours after H-1B visa program freeze",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/donald-trump-awards-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-hours-after-h-1b-visa",
        "published": "2026-10-09T04:48:40.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}