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.
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This program is the most flagrantly abused one I know of, it should be repealed.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.
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!!!!
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.
“...introduced by California Congressman Zoe Lofgren..”
Actually, Zoe Lofgren is an evil bitch, so it S/B congressWOMAN.
Solution = Shut down the H1B program.
I used to process H-1B Visa’s all the time. I worked for a Japanese company (producing silicon chips) who had a Main facility actually in Japan. They used the H-1B Visas to bring people from their Japan location, into the USA.
These were Engineers, fabricators (making wafers which are scored and broken into the little tiny dots of silicon) which are then inserted into the modern phones and other electronic equipment.
H-1B was never intended to be used for the average line worker .. they were intended for the college educated and higher paid salaried workers. We never used them for the line workers - ever.
This is a good step, but they also need to cover the other end of it — outsourcing the jobs entirely to a foreign service provider. Call centers and IT hubs and cloud computing and engineering design offices overseas are all cheap foreign labor scams. American labor costs are replaced with Accounts Payable entries — just as deductible from profits but with none of the taxes paid into FICA and Personal Income Tax accounts. Worse, it is money that is not circulating in our economy, but in a foreign country’s economy.
Payments to service providers overseas should not be tax deductible business expenses. At the very least that would make those services effectively more expensive. Maybe also collect the full 15.3% FICA taxes and individual income taxes at a flat top marginal rate on those payments. I haven’t thought of a workable better alternative to discouraging foreign services, but that would be a start.
“A legislation has been introduced...”
Seems they have farmed out this article to a non-American writer.
“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.”
Looks like a step in the right direction, but I’d read the fine print.
Immigration legislation has a long history of deceptive characteristics intended to make a bill that actually increases immigration sound like it will reduce immigration. Or the same thing with enforcement, guest workers etc.