[Still Thinking]

Since the explicit premise of hiring H1-B workers in the unavailability of qualified American candidates, how can even a single American citizen be discharged from a company before all H1-B's in his job classification have been let go???

[Postbro1]

[blockquote]Since the explicit premise of hiring H1-B workers in the unavailability of qualified American candidates, how can even a single American citizen be discharged from a company before all H1-B's in his job classification have been let go??? [/blockquote]

Come on you know no one wants to look at this stuff. Americans are losing their jobs thanks to NAFTA and now because of H1-B. Who is going to save America for Americans?

[crazykatz]

I can think of at least two companies in Florida...one in transportation and one in DP consulting that laid-off Americans and hired H-IBs afterwards or left the H-1Bs in place, while the Americans, who had trained them, were let go.

[Ol' Sox]

how can even a single American citizen be discharged from a company before all H1-B's in his job classification have been let go???

In a management meeting last year, prior to a 15% reduction in force, I brought up that very argument and the likely scenario of discrimination lawsuits. Three months later, the sounds of the cafeteria contained far less Russian and Chinese, and the bathrooms no longer smelled of curry.