Obama reforms should allow tech companies to hire key talent

San Jose Mercury ^ | 09/05/2014 | Peter Muller

[a fool in paradise]

By doing so, Obama can deliver on one of the top priorities of technology companies -- reform to an outdated visa program that restricts their ability to hire key talent.

FUPM

KEY talent already lives in America and is suffering from low wages in the tech industry caused by offshoring and Indian work visa crap.

Crony fascism. Billion dollar liberals can party with all of their money however they want but when they repeatedly lie to the government and depress MY wages and bypass MY skills, I have an issue with them.

[setha]

Then what about the majority of citizens, that is the individuals that can do these jobs or possess trainable levels of competency - without regard to educational background?

This country has more than enough citizens that can do the job, but plenty of employers would prefer the easily controlled guest, contract, or temp worker.

If you don't believe me, construct a supply and demand curve for labor. Place employers on the demand side, workers on the supply side, quantity on the horizontal axis, price on the vertical axis. Then draw two more lines parallel to the supply curve - one on the left of the original supply curve, and one on the right of the original supply curve. Finally, see where each demand curve intersects.

In short, you'll see that an increase in the supply of workers does not make a shortage of workers, all other things equal. Even if you account for skillsets, the same concept will apply.

[grania]

Doesn't EVERYBODY know highly skilled tech workers who were laid off and replaced by cheaper immigrant labor or their jobs were outsourced rather than keep the talented employees for full careers?

Who's Obama working for? Bill Gates and Steve Jobs?

[Mr. Jeeves]

Obama reforms should allow tech companies to hire key talent

So we are going to reform tax laws to make it easier for companies to hire American-born 1099 independent contractors and smack the union bosses who ran to the government to prevent that right in their piggy snouts?

Didn't think so...

[a fool in paradise]

Because Bill Gates needs a second yacht the size of a football stadium.

[az_gila]

H1-B workers have an advantage over American citizen workers for an employer in that they do not have to register with Selective Service. If their is a national emergency the American workers could potentially get drafted causing a shortage in the workforce. Ironically they could come back from doing their service and end up working under the supervision of their exempt H1-B co-workers.

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A change from when I came over on a H1B visa in 1970.

I got a SS card and a Draft Card...:^)

Also I was paid the average US graduate engineer wage and only enslaved for one year - at that time engineering graduates didn't want to work in Michigan and the evil space program.

[x1stcav]

That would be too sweet.

[Myrddin]

My job can’t go to China. The customer must choose
whether to pay enough to get the job done within
the quality and schedule limits or expect to fail.
They have put such a priority on cost cutting that
qualified candidates turn down the offers. Candidates
that are willing to take the offered salary would
require a few years of mentoring to be productive.
The bright side for me is going home after 5 years
living away from my family. We have sacrificed enough to
keep the project alive.

[Jack Hammer]

Paint a pig and it’s still a pig.

America doesn’t need immigrants, Americans don’t want immigrants, and we can’t even employ the population we already have.

Obama goes the wrong way.

Again.