US Senate passes law against BPO
Washington: In the first federal law against outsourcing, the US Senate passed a law barring the doling out of sub-contracts to India and other countries by US companies to cut costs, reports said. The legal measure, originally sponsored by Republican Senator from Ohio George Voinovich and others, was included in a $328-billion Spending Bill passed by the Senate.

Under the measure, when the US government gives contracts to an American firm the latter cannot give sub-contracts out of that to a source outside the US. The measure provides that the contract cannot be sub-contracted through the outsourcing mechanism to countries like India, China and Russia to cut costs.
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