This isn't about H1B and other visas, which BTW, do NOT allow companies to simply hire foreign workers.
This is about cheap labor being bused in and housed from other EU member nations, taking the jobs of locals who are just as or more qualified. it's about government not putting the needs of it's on people first, which is illegal under this EU treaty. it's about A nation being governed by leaders not accountable to the people.
Here, H1B visa's are only allowed when a qualified person cannot be found within the local jurisdiction/state. You'd also be hard pressed to prove that they were being paid less than what the local job market demands as well. H1B visa's are mostly used for jobs pretty high up on the cooperate ladder.
“Here, H1B visa’s are only allowed when a qualified person cannot be found within the local jurisdiction/state. You’d also be hard pressed to prove that they were being paid less than what the local job market demands as well. H1B visa’s are mostly used for jobs pretty high up on the cooperate ladder.”
self ping for later when I can find the video of the attorney explaining how to get around the H1B visa regs.
“... H1B visa’s are only allowed when a qualified person cannot be found within the local jurisdiction/state...”
That is the excuse made by the likes of Intel and Microsoft so they don’t have to pay a living wage to an American.
There is a reason that Microsoft’s latest products have been crap: they aren’t hiring the best people in the USA but the cheapest from overseas.
Because US companies aren’t hiring American, less and less young people are choosing to become engineers. Why go into a fiels when companies prefer to hire foreigners.
In 1983, when more than 175,000 software engineers were seeking work, major software companies in this country were appealing to the Clinton Administration for a greater number of H1B visas to be issued. That trend has continued.
Funny, the H1B's I've been working with lately are all entry-level to mid-level programmers and/or office support personnel. And, due to the terms of the H1B program, they are working basically as low paid indentured servants.
One H1B'er I was working with lately was required to fly cross country for a one week project on the very evening that his wife had miscarried twins (and had yet to see a physician to deal with the aftermath).
No, the H1B program is just another national disgrace in a very long list of national disgraces that have become the hallmark of globalism.
Pffft, the global corporation I work for does it all the time and by the dozens, if not hundreds. I've worked for managers that were foreign nationals here on H1B visas and there was nothing unique about their qualifications.
H1B visas were widely abused by some employers.
Also the L1 “training” visa was abused - someone would set up an IT contracting company as a branch of a company in, say, India, then bring in foreigners ostensibly for “training” but in fact contract them out to replace gringos.
There are many stories of IT folk being told to, in effect, train their replacements and to not make a fuss if they ever wanted to get any severance.