Link to the study:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/Reforming_US_High-Skilled_Guestworkers_Program.pdf
Not a surprise to me, on my previous job I was replaced by THREE H-1Bs.
There are a lot of companies in Silicon Valley that are categorized as “H-1B dependent.” That translates to they can’t exist without the H-1B program.
There should be at least a $100,000 minimum wage for H-1B visa recipients.
H-1B Visa violates the 13th & 14th Amendments.
The 14th gave Citizenship to laborers. It banned the service visa.
Conservative Judges, where are you?
Where are all the ‘equal pay for equal work’ females? Now THIS is something you cn sink your teeth into.
I’m pretty sure I saw Ivanka Trump standing next to her father after he won and raised her arm saying she’ll be right beside him to fight for equal pay for equal work, child care credit, etc.
Well ladies, this is where the rubber meets the road. You can do something about this, do something good for the American worker, and attain your coveted equal pay mission.
I defy anyone to tell me why these ‘equal pay’ soldiers should not be all over this like white on rice.
Whadda ya say, Ivanka? You said you were going to fight for it. You have the President’s ear. It will contribute to MAGA.
Businesses pay low wages and the taxpayers make up the cost of living in a first world economy through a myriad of 'assistance' programs.
Scam.
btt
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 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.
Unscrupulous greedy employers love them.
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.
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.
I’d like to see a hefty charge on H1B visas. An employer wants to get an H1B, he has to pay $50K/year for the visa, on top of what he pays the foreign worker. This would restrict H1B to just those cases where there truly is no American with the skill set.
As I’ve been saying for some time. I work with large banks. They are stuffed full of H1B Indians working at significantly lower rates than Americans. No, we are not talking about IT people here. There are plenty in standard banking type jobs.
Nobody can tell me there aren’t plenty of qualified Americans for those jobs. This is just straight up abuse....an attempt to crush the bargaining power of Americans in their own country. We badly need to impose a tax on imported labor to ensure that it is MORE EXPENSIVE than domestic labor. Then and only then will companies stop abusing work visas to bring in cheap labor.
Both parties have been in on this.
H1B bump for later.....
As a tech worker seeing what goes on I have formulated a simple argument for whether or not H1-Bs are being abused at the expense of American workers.
It is argued that H1-Bs are needed to address a shortage of skilled tech workers.
Basic econ supply and demand says that shortages cause prices to increase and oversupply causes prices to decrease.
Therefore if we need H1-Bs to address a shortage of skilled tech workers we should see wages (prices) on an upward trajectory that retains current workers encourages other new workers to enter the marketplace.
What I see is tech wages have stagnated. Starting wages for my degree on a inflation adjusted measure have decreased since I graduated. This causes college students to avoid STEM majors for being too much work for the pay level and I see many talented, experienced, smart co-workers seek jobs outside of tech, moving into sales, consulting, small (non-tech) business, finance, real estate, etc after being pushed out of tech jobs, often replaced by H1Bs.
The conclusion is not a real shortage. H1-Bs are unnecessary and are hurting Americans and our killing America’s ability to produce world class scientists and engineers from our domestic talent.