Posted on 03/29/2015 6:40:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ted Cruz supports increasing the number of HB1 visas by a factor of five.
How about if you have one H1B you can’t layoff employees. They are meant as a stop gap, not a replacement.
If anyone tells you that this is not happening is either lying, misinformed and or ignorant.
The mantra that there are not enough software, electrical, mechanical, process engineers in the U.S. is poppycock.
Look to the 93 million out of the labor force. 40-50 year old engineers that struggle for employment. While on the ol band wagon. If anyone tells you that age discrimination is not a big problem in corporate America is again...being deceptive.
Corporate America talks a good game, but covertly skirts it's own policy. Pretty damn shameful.
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But from an IT perspective -- everything in the purview is "tech".
If they don't, they simply are axed. I've seen it, and it is insult on top of injury. And the funny part is that the replacement employees are usually crap, even after the training. However, when the company's IT department falls apart and the stockholders come looking for those responsible, those responsible have taken their kickbacks and moved on, leaving their former company in smoking ruins, just like a 3rd world country...
Any replacement I train will finish by hating the company more than me. Poison the well when management is poisonous.
Here is what I have noticed at three different companies across three differing lines of business.
The first few H1B’s show up and generally speaking things are fine. They integrate well and are productive.
Next up, less American’s are being hired and more H1B’s are streaming in and before you know it there is a small enclave where they all managed to get themselves seated.
Yet more H1B’s come in, this round is usually from the enclaves recommendations about “good” workers from their home country and before long if you take a walk through said enclave English is no longer being spoken and you quickly find out the latest round of H1B imports actually can’t do the job and productivity goes down dragging the rest of the department with it. Still, American’s are no longer being hired equally to the H1B’s, the bean counters are now hooked on how many foreigners they can get per an American at less $$$ but can’t see the productivity drop. It’s a spiral from there.
It’s an awful business plan but then “awful” was the word of the day in American business for a couple of generations.
The San Diego area has a group of industries supplying the ethnic needs of the H1-B workers in Qualcomm.
And while we are at it, how about CEOs and CFOs being H1B hired by the board of directors. Isn't there a shortage of [cheap] top management?
The mantra that there are not enough software, electrical, mechanical, process engineers in the U.S. is poppycock....
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If anyone tells you that age discrimination is not a big problem in corporate America is again...being deceptive....
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Corporate America talks a good game, but covertly skirts it's own policy...
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Well that deserves a quadruple bump.
That’s okay....I just had about 35 people working for me and a lot of technicians. Several PhDs, lots of MS’s and fewer BS’s.... We did research and a lot of idea development that put theory into reality....
I finally came to realize the ones that gave me the least trouble were the technicians. Did what I wanted and kept working. Some of the others? I never saw a bigger bunch of coddled babies in my life. :0)
>>A much better solution would be to base H1B visas on salary. The highest salaries would get priority for visas...<<
Better yet, but along the same lines, why not require U.S. companies to pay at least the going rate for a U.S. employee doing the same job? After all, the argument is that there aren’t enough qualified people in this country. That would argue that wages should go up, not down. So requiring that the companies pay the going rate would at least keep wages level, rather than driving them down as now appears to be occurring.
And a company looking at a temporary worker for $100,000 vs. an American who could become a permanent employee for the same $100,000 would likely lean toward the American unless the skill set was obviously different between the two.
The example given of qualified people training their own replacement H-1B employees wouldn’t occur then either. Why replace your qualified work force with an untrained one at the same price? And if the employer argues that wages have gotten too high, simply require them to first offer the lower wage to the existing employee and if he refuses, then he can only be replaced by a U.S. citizen, not a H-1B employee.
I’m not generally in favor of more rules, but right now it would appear that the rules governing H-1B’s need to at least be reconsidered.
For those who think Ted Cruz is a Conservative on immigration please remember:
(1) 2012 - Campaigned in Texas to increase the number of legal “guest workers” for ranchers and farmers.
(2) 2013 - Introduced an amendment to the Gang of Eight Amnesty that would have increased the number of H-1B Visas by 5 times.
(3) 2013 - Introduced a second amendment to increase Green Cards by 650,000 per year - in other words, 650,000 new permanent work visas every year.
The “non-disclosure” agreement is why so few American engineers will criticize the H-1B program.
Almost all large corporations hand out a pretty decent severance package when the H-1B’s walk in the door.
The Americans have only two choices:
(1) Train the H-1B’s and don't complain - then get a good reference (”eligible for rehire”), up to 18 months of pay, maybe educational benefits, and free professional job placement services.
(2) Refuse to train or publicly complain - no reference, minimal severance pay, no educational or placement services.
*rme*
I don't know what that means.
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