Posted on 01/31/2017 12:00:03 PM PST by bryan999
Washington: A legislation has been introduced in the US House of Representatives which among other things calls for more than doubling the minimum salary of H-1B visa holders to $130,000, making it difficult for firms to use the programme to replace American employees with foreign workers, including from India.
The High-Skilled Integrity and Fairness Act of 2017 introduced by California Congressman Zoe Lofgren prioritises market based allocation of visas to those companies willing to pay 200 per cent of a wage calculated by survey, eliminates the category of lowest pay, and raises the salary level at which H-1B dependent employer are exempt from non-displacement and recruitment attestation requirements to greater than $130,000.
This is more than double of the current H-1B minimum wage of $60,000 which was established in 1989 and since then has remained unchanged.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
This is also a win for overall quality assurance, which is sorely lacking in IT right now.
Cut her salary in half.
Given inflation and history, they should not name a fixed number for the salary or we’ll be right back here in 20-some years. Rather, it should be a number indexed to something - say, 4 times the median US citizen salary for that position.
“...and raises the salary level at which H-1B dependent employer are exempt from non-displacement and recruitment attestation requirements to greater than $130,000.”
So, the $60,000 price point didn’t need to show “displacement” was occurring?
They should also index the threshold(s) to the greater of industry salary growth or inflation and automagically adjust each year, so this doesn’t happen again. $60K in 89 dollars is probably equal to $130K now.
Is this the legal term for posting a job for which no one on the planet would qualify and then declaring it a job "Americans won't do"?
The American tech industry, Apple, Amazon, Nexflix and Google appear to be doing great without federal interference.
150-250K is better number.
Good. My American HQ company has been not quite fully taken over by Indian H1-B visa holders living 4 to an apartment working for less than half the pay of the Americans they replaced. They all go back to India, but only in a cycle that keeps Americans unemployed in America.
I think the reasoning is that if you’re paying sufficiently high vs. the US going rate, it proves US workers aren’t available and that you’re not just doing it to cheap out on salaries.
Kill the whole thing we don’t need one more H-1B visa. The USA has enough skilled labor. There is no controlling legal authority. It is an honor system used by dishonorable people. Let the domestic free market set wages.
This program is the most flagrantly abused one I know of, it should be repealed. The H1B program is to skilled workers, what illegal aliens are to unskilled.
Yes, that is the threshold.
Those jobs are posted throughout Silicon Valley.
Skills that no single human has ever possessed or ever will.
Are there any other Wage Controlls that you would like to impose on private companies?
NO H-1B visas!!!!
Train and hire Americans!!!!
PHOOEY!!!! This is one of the big ways that American workers lose!
Americans are laid off, than can’t find a job for a long time, and are “dropped” from the labor force. Then employers say that they are not qualified for any new job, because the technology has moved on. So they hire an Indian (who is also not qualified, but it is cheap enough to train him/her) instead.
PHOOEY again!!!!
It doesn’t affect immigrants or citizens already here and it prevents companies from just hiring in wage slaves from outside the country. They are perfectly free to hire people already here at a lower price, or they can actually pay for expertise if they really, really need it.
The people who claim they want “legal” immigration need to get their priorities straight. If we truly want the “best and brightest” H1Bs are the way they come here. We are not importing strawberry pickers with H1Bs. We are hiring highly skilled, often Master Degree level, professionals in way more than IT and programming. If you are against the H1Bs and demand a salary of $130k per year just admit you are against ALL immigration. That’s perfectly fine.
Third-World immigration controls, NOT wage controls!!!!
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