An Indian-American owned IT company in California was on Wednesday asked to pay $173,044 in wages to 12 of its foreign employees, most of them from India, who were paid salaries well below the levels required under the H-1B programme. A probe by the US Department of labour’s Wage and Hour Division found that some of the H-1B employees that Cloudwick Technologies Inc. brought from India with promised salaries of up to $8,300/month instead received as little as $800 net per month.