Posted on 01/30/2017 10:03:47 PM PST by RainMan
No. In my IT hiring days I never hired any visa workers, just Americans. Told headhunters to not even consider visa workers.
I did in one case get overruled into paying an (American) outside IT support company for one corporate office rather than replacing my American onsite employee who quit. That third party later outsourced most of their staff to India which pissed me off. The end result was that a $65k job formerly held by my American employee no longer existed because my employer signed a multi-year support contract with what was ostensibly an American provider.
This is why I say restricting the work visa programs is not enough. Discouraging the use of foreign service providers also needs to be addressed. We should list up all the ways American workers and even the government loses and the business gains when jobs are shifted to non-Americans and cover all bases.
You act like I am a supporter of existing H1B visa policy, which is far from my position. When I say keep H1B visas for the true “super stars” employers are willing to pay an ADDITIONAL $100K/yr for, I am expecting businesses to be willing to pay for only a few HUNDRED people rather than the 85,000 current H1B visas issued per year. Added to the $60K minimum wage for H1B positions, that would mean a visa worker would cost $160K minimum.
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