How is that possible? The letter of the law is that if they are undocumented, then they are illegal. Even if they would have been legal otherwise.

As far as the non-competes go, I would be willing to agree to one week of previous salary per each week of non-compete, adjusted for COLA annually plus 15% annual bonus.

What's a severance package? Is that the package containing your COBRA information and the NDAs an other crap they want you to sign right before they kick you out the door?
At my company, severance is only for the C level people. The rest of the company only gets paid through the current day and gets compensated for half of their earned PTO time. Which I have to imagine is highly illegal right there. If you have earned it, they must give it to you.

Kind of like the guys who get Chinese tattoos and it turns out actually translates to "Small Lo Mein with Egg Roll"?

Basically, they want to be like Wal-mart. Offer an inferior product at half price. But then the consumer is getting pissed off when the product doesn't perform as well as the full priced product.
In this case, though, this is more like if Wal-mart wanted to sell a radio at half price that uses public frequency bands but doesn't meet the FCC regulations. Which Wal-mart would not be allowed to do.

You have to take the law into consideration when looking at those statistics. In the U.S., the law allows for rape charges if a wife is forced to have sex with her husband. In India, the law can only be invoked if the husband and wife are separated.
Also, there are social reasons for underreporting of rape in India. If you file rape charges, then you are considered to have been raped. This can be cause for a future arranged marriage to be terminated, a marriage to be terminated and for the woman to be shunned.
It used to be similar in the U.S., but woman were empowered and encouraged to speak out. There are still a lot of rapes not reported, but there are also a lot of false reports as well.
In all, it is difficult to compare rates of a lawbreaking in countries where the law differs as do also the social implications of reporting the charge,

Who said anything about layoffs? It said "An IT worker who is fired because he or she has been replaced by a foreign, visa-holding employee of an offshore outsourcing firm". So AC produced stupid text.
If you read between the lines, this is not even talking about a direct replacement in the company. This is more like when they fire an employee so they can bring on a contractor and the contractor happens to be an H1b working for a contracting company. This happens all the time. I've had the similar happen to me as well. I was a contractor working for a company and I was replaced by several consultants from another company that were all h1bs so they could afford to pay them less. They started out with only two of them to replace me, which was a little more expensive than just paying me. But by the time all was said and done, they had 4 of them in there doing my job at a little over twice what they had been paying me.

A lot of industries account for your time based on hours worked, but account for your pay based on salary. Even the time off is added up based on the hours you work and assumes 40 hours per work. So you don't accumulate any more paid time off from working overtime either. A lot of companies have project management systems in which they require you to log all 40 hours that you worked, and you can't log more than 40 even if you worked more than 40. And if you log under 40 you are penalized, just as you indicate happens in aerospace.
I'm kind of surprised they don't start docking more than 8 hours for a day off of work since they normally expect you to work 12 hour days.
Basically, the industry has become one where the employer gets to have their cake and eat it to. All the rules apply only in their favor and their is nothing in the contract which benefits the employee.

I used to have to travel at a previous company and the banks that I was sent to paid for my time by the day. So if they were paying $2,000 a day they were going to get 24 hours out of me to make it worth their while. However, my company did not pay me for the overtime.
At another company, I was sent out to clients who were billed hourly. If I worked 16 hours, the client was billed for 16 hours, and I was paid for 8 hours.

The employees have no choice of working the overtime. They don't WANT to do it. They just do it because all of the industry has colluded into not paying for overtime and there is no choice.

If my pay were slashed by 30% but I got paid even 1-for-1 overtime, I would still come out ahead. If I got time and a half, my pay would be double even with a 30% cut in wage.

As a manager and an employee, I vote No for overtime regulation exemptions. If a business is dependent upon their employees working for free after 40 hours, then their business model is flawed and it is better for everyone if they go under.

Some of use realize that by college age the students are NOT adults and CANNOT make their own decisions. If they were adults capable of making their own decisions, that would mean they are not completely dependent upon mommy and daddy to pay for all of the education of which they are not partaking. Yes there are some that are responsible and will pay attention in class, but if they are not going to pay attention in class, they ARE at least some distraction for those who do want to pay attention.

OK, how about "Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Invisible Pink Unicorns"? Just as likely, and yet much more cuddly.

I was invited to an event the other day where there were a lot of very wealthy people; Bank presidents and their investors. Open bar, free food, free valet parking and coat check. While in there mostly being a wallflower (because I am not good at this sort of event), I happened to notice that nobody was sitting there staring at a screen. In fact, I heard no alerts, no ringtones, and saw no trusty smartphones strapped sturdily to the hip. Nobody pulled a cell phone out to check the time, or the weather or their messages. During the entire three hour event I saw exactly one of these people look briefly at a cellphone. It was a smartphone, but a very early model with a small screen, and looked well used. She glanced at the time and put it away.
Not drawing conclusions, just something to ponder.