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Ask HN: Multi national corporation labor laws

3 points by pylua ↗ HN
I have noticed that many multinational corporations that own a business in the US have been filling US based projects with non U.S. workers from other sister entities in other countries .What legal mechanism are companies using they to do this considering they did not directly hire a non U.S. based worker as an employee ? At least , as far as I know.

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slater
Why hire a designer locally, when you already have a designer on the payroll in [cheap country]?
pylua
Can you legally hire someone as an employee offering below minimum wage in another country and use that to fulfill us based contracts ?
slater
i'd say yes? cos designer in [non-US country] is not beholden to US-based labor laws, nor is the entity that hired that person.
pylua
If the sub entity is us based would it not have to respect us laws ? I wonder if it is because they are remote and not physically in the United States.

Even still I wonder if companies need to be audited on this.

slater
Companies have no legal requirement to hire local/national talent.

And if a company can save a buck, you know full well they're gonna do just that.

pylua
Right, but for in person work there are constraints like visa, minimum wage, and then paying into social security. I wonder if there is no option like that if the person is remote. Seems like a loophole if so.
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Labour laws of the place where labour takes place are usually applicable.