The entire H1B program can be solved by requiring employers pay 125% of the prevailing national wage for these positions. Voila, no problem.
Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
I agree with that or they should pay at least 125% of the salary of the soon to be out of work employee forced to train the H1B.
“The entire H1B program can be solved by requiring employers pay 125% of the prevailing national wage for these positions. Voila, no problem.”
And, voila, a whole new government bureaucracy is required to determine the prevailing national wage for various techy positions. But yeah, I get your drift.