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Foreign Student Says He Paid $3,000 for McDonald's Work Study

By Susanna Kim | ABC News Blogs – 3 hours ago

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  Foreign Student Says He Paid $3,000 for McDonald's Work Study (ABC News)

A student from Argentina said he was "exploited" by a work-study program at a McDonald's franchise in Pennsylvania.

Jorge Rios, 27, came to the United States in December 2012. As part of a J-1 summer work travel program with a student work visa from the U.S. State Department, Rios said he was not paid overtime and had to be on call at all times of the day as an employee at a McDonald's near Harrisburg, Pa.

He and about 17 other foreign students say they paid around $3,000 to $4,000 for visa costs, plane tickets and other expenses.

"We have been exploited by McDonald's because we have been working for McDonald's but we did not receive overtime or the fact that we have been put to be on-call all day had to do with the way McDonald's designed our schedules," he said.

The State Department does not charge fees for people to participate in the summer work travel program, which requires jobs to be seasonal or temporary. Instead, private companies charge fees to help bring students to the U.S. as in this case.

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Capitalism is not a good role model for Business Ethics 101.

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what a concept...charge a 3 grand fee for a student work visa so they can earn minimum wage ....means they got free labor.... a great dvd about all this sort of thing is 'American Jobs"....tells the outsourcing and the bringing on of foreign 'trainees' who really aren't trainees but work ever so much cheaper..