Extremely tortured logic that an employer that takes advantage of a government meddling H1-B visa program to begin with has any “right” to be free of government interference.
These visas should NOT exist to begin with, except for some very limited exceptions where no American jobs are being replaced for mere convenience and the person/persons are truly doing a job that an American would not otherwise be doing.
It’s absolutely crazy in this country that we put foreigners ahead of our own when it comes to jobs. What sane country does that?
Here’s the way this went down, to the best of my knowledge. Disney’s IT sucks and has for years. Anybody who deals with it on a routine basis knows this. I’ve cited examples in other threads.
So. Disney starts to use a local contractor for some jobs, with impressive results. Disney decides to move more of its IT jobs to the contractor.
Orlando is a unique marketplace. Disney and Universal have huge footprints that the local labor market does not support. This is why both theme parks have extensive college intern programs; they need to recruit far and wide to overcome the labor limitations of the Orlando job market. That works well when hiring college kids looking for excitement and a resume bump.
It doesn’t work so well for professionals settled into their lives and families. So, this contractor expanded its search.
HB1s aside, Disney needed a change in its IT direction and they found a contractor that provided them proven results.
The issue isn’t so black and white.
Nevertheless, Trump didn’t address any of that.
Instead, he said he’d force Disney to rehire people they no longer want working for them. And that’s alright with y’all? It’s OK with people here for the government to force employers to sign paychecks for employees that they do not want? Wow.
Would it be OK for President Obama to decide today that every company with ten or more employees must hire two more at the same salary, because the sky is blue, or to stimulate the economy, or just because it’s Saturday and too wet to golf and he’s bored?
Be very careful what you’re supporting here: if the federal government should be allowed to force the private sector to hire hundreds of employees at its discretion instead of the employer’s then that applies to anybody in that office, including its current occupant.