Ride hailing service provider Uber is attempting to compensate workers stranded abroad following President Donald J. Trump’s executive order prohibiting immigrants from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the US over a 90 day period.
A report by trade publication
CIO.com said that Uber is working on a program to compensate its workers who are stuck abroad following the stay order.
Trump banned workers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from coming into the US as a proposed measure to curb the foreign terrorist threat in the country.
Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick said the company is trying to see how it can compensate drivers coming from the listed countries who are unable to come back after an extended stay in the said geographies. Kalanick is part of Trump’s business advisory group, the publication noted.
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Meanwhile, the Internet Association (IA), a group of major technology companies including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft said that the stay order has troubling consequences for the industry.
“Their work benefits our economy and creates jobs here in the United States,” IA president and chief executive Michael Beckerman in a statement issued over the weekend,
CIO.com reported.
Further, the report quoted Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella’s online statement, “As an immigrant and as a CEO, I’ve both experienced and seen the positive impact that immigration has on our company, for the country, and for the world. We will continue to advocate on this important topic.”
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