Republicans need to move legislation mandating the salary level of H1B visas to be 20% HIGHER than the highest paid, non-executive employee in the company. The purpose of obtaining such an employee is necessity and urgency along with an empty talent pool of native Americans. In a time of urgency, everybody pays a premium. Under NO circumstances should obtaining a crucial foreign employee be a bargain in comparison to a near-perfect American alternative.
If I need to send a package that a client needs tomorrow, I cannot use snail mail for $15. Instead, because it absolutely, positively has to be there tomorrow, I must pay $200 to make sure it arrives as promised.
This is a great idea. This would end the abuse of American workers I discussed.....not its not fruit pickers or ditch diggers....its accountants, auditors, finance managers, etc etc.
Requiring the pay of H1B workers to be at a premium to American workers would ensure that companies would only apply for H1B visas for employees they actually needed instead of just using them to crush the bargaining power of Americans in the labor market.
Good points for obtaining H1Bs but there’s also retaining them.
If you have to lay people off, it’s cheaper to do if they’re American. American’s only get severance, H1Bs not only get severance, but repatriation and moving expenses.
Japan has a similar system. If you cannot find a citizen with the skills you need, you should be willing to pay a premium to get someone with those skills.
Here? Well, let's just say on the job before my current one, I was replaced by THREE H-1Bs, count 'em THREE!
No, what they need to so is just end the program or add a TAX, equal to the VISA HOLDERS employees salary and benefits paid to the Fed.
There is no saving this program, it is wholesale abused, and need ended.