Posted on 01/21/2019 2:54:01 PM PST by zeestephen
A recently released report on the H-1B program (for skilled nonimmigrant workers) indicates that in at least 40 percent of the jobs the employer gets a full-time (alien) worker for a $40,000 a year discount from actual prevailing wages.
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I have always needed to pay my foreign employees the same or often more than the American programmers. Usually I could not find American programmers at all.
But there are lots of quality control employees and lab workers who work for very little. There are a few Indian companies that seem to control most of the H1-B visas and they pay very little for their employees. They have driven down the rates for those types of workers.
“Conservative Judges, where are you?”
Constitutional Law, while still taught, is no longer a requirement to graduate Harvard Law School.
I think those types of judges when the way of the buggy whip.
I have always needed to pay my foreign employees the same or often more than the American programmers. Usually I could not find American programmers at all.
But there are lots of quality control employees and lab workers who work for very little. There are a few Indian companies that seem to control most of the H1-B visas and they pay very little for their employees. They have driven down the rates for those types of workers.
I can't believe some right wing xenophobe tries to stand in the way of eliminating jobs for Americans! /s
You should quietly inquire about the “OPT Program.”
“Optional Practical Training” is another work visa scam.
OPT is literally part of the Foreign Student Visa - no work visa required at all!
Foreign born STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) graduates of USA universities can work full time in the USA for 36 months.
There is no minimum pay level, no annual quota, and the employer and the foreign worker are both exempt from paying Medicare and SocSec taxes.
Under Trump, the number of OPT foreign graduates now working in the USA has gone from 220,000 to at least 275,000!
Those foreign workers are directly competing against home grown Americans who are also recent college grads.
Re: “Free Republic static economic analysis.”
I think you misunderstood Comment #6.
To my eye, his Comment was criticizing H-1B.
You might also point out that - in IT jobs - the H-1Bs are usually 90% male!
Unscrupulous greedy employers love them.
MichaelCorleone
That is a great idea. It will get the job done no problem.
It's not my idea. I can't remember where I read it. I don't see how anyone making less than that amount of money could have any sort of essential skill that can't be found by someone already im the US.
We provides excellent career opportunities for Fresh Graduates (OPT) and Experienced Professionals. . . . Please refer F1 students/ Prospective OPT Candidates even if they don’t have any real time work experience as they can be considered under “Train and Hire” program
Work Authorization: OPT, CPT, US Citizen, Green Card or all eligible to work in the US are encouraged to apply. The Company is E-verified to get an OPT STEM Extension.
Etc.
During the 80-90s especially, there was an active trend in reducing or even eliminating in-house corporate engineering and R&D staff. For engineering, this meant out sourcing to engineering companies with much lower wage structures plus the owner could turn the spigot on and off. Also, it became not uncommon for multinational engineering companies to have a low cost subsidiary in oh say India for example, for doing bulk, rote work. With R&D, instead of in-house innovation, patents and such, the strategy changed to a much heavier reliance on University contract research, purchasing patents, licensing and consolidation by purchasing emerging companies and mega mergers with competitors. All this put a squeeze on USA STEM professionals that continues.
As a career finance guy, I say the minimum wage for an H1B should be $150,000 / year. Companies that need talent will pay for it. Those that don’t need talent are merely looking for cost savings.
And they essentially get a slave who can’t quit.
This does not include the taxes they do Not pay for foreigners. I would almost bet the worst offender is the VA healthcare system, in other words the U S govt tax dogmdgers.
That explains the silence then.
If those outfits hiring foreign programmers are so stupid, then they should go bankrupt. Then smarter outfits will emerge to take their place and will hire only local talent.
Other option would be to make it illegal to hire foreign programmers. But then what stops those outfits from moving the whole operation abroad? With the World Wide Web it is not difficult to do just that in IT world. Then we lose not only IT jobs in US, but also all peripheral employees such as accountants, janitors, building mentence people etc. And we lose income tax & property tax & utility taxes paid by those outfits.
Sounds good to me.
Perhaps you should ding your HR recruiter for being too strict with the job description or the ‘requirements’.
I have developed many cool programs during my career even though I don’t have the creditials. Programming is easy, and coding is merely syntax.
I chose Finance as a career because everyone knows that IT programmers get terminated as soon as a company decides on a different software platform.
Will you be surprised when they introduce you to your H-1B replacements and have you train them?
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