The article is lying by omission, it's not just Microsoft, which got suspended from PERM, FT has a list of few other companies (it's paywalled by searching for the article title and clicking the result link works [1]). Also, this is not something extraordinary: big companies get suspended from PERM all the time.

1. https://www.ft.com/content/5cfecbba-69ed-42d0-98fd-3ae019144...