“And we need to stop issuing H1-B visas for a while, at lest.”
If I were a candidate, I would actually come out FOR H1B visas if and only if the 4 year agreement between the company and the person getting slave wages for 4 years was waived. Most people aren’t aware of that little nugget of information ... people coming in on an H1B are forced to stay at the company sponsoring them for 4 years.
It’d be funny to see any of these candidates defend that 4 year rule let alone Americans getting replaced with lower cost employees.
If you’d eliminate that sickening 4-year rule, we’d get new tech workers coming in from overseas and a temporary dilution of the market of course ... however, once they learn what they’re really worth, they’ll quit the sweatshop that screwed them and move on to greener pastures (and pay/competition would increase ... ones not so good at their craft wouldn’t go anywhere).
It’s indefensible that these visas have that 4 year rule. I could see something like 1 year IF the company is paying them a fair amount for moving expenses and giving the employee an option to quit if they pay back the moving expenses at a pro-rated rate, but 4 years clearly translates into “fixed slave wages” in my opinion.
You make a good point.
This skews the market.
Plus a minimum wage for these persons, more like what they would pay a recent college graduate.
Plus sponsoring organizations must offer the existing person the recent graduate wage plus 15% or so because of the experience.
But I hate legislating what private company HR departments can do. We need less regulation. Let the market work it out. Keep the American citizens first.
But if we must have this program, lets keep the American worker in mind.