Posted on 01/31/2017 12:00:03 PM PST by bryan999
Washington: A legislation has been introduced in the US House of Representatives which among other things calls for more than doubling the minimum salary of H-1B visa holders to $130,000, making it difficult for firms to use the programme to replace American employees with foreign workers, including from India.
The High-Skilled Integrity and Fairness Act of 2017 introduced by California Congressman Zoe Lofgren prioritises market based allocation of visas to those companies willing to pay 200 per cent of a wage calculated by survey, eliminates the category of lowest pay, and raises the salary level at which H-1B dependent employer are exempt from non-displacement and recruitment attestation requirements to greater than $130,000.
This is more than double of the current H-1B minimum wage of $60,000 which was established in 1989 and since then has remained unchanged.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“...introduced by California Congressman Zoe Lofgren..”
Actually, Zoe Lofgren is an evil bitch, so it S/B congressWOMAN.
Solution = Shut down the H1B program.
I am against all immigration. It has been abused since 1965. Needs to stop fro along time.
I used to process H-1B Visa’s all the time. I worked for a Japanese company (producing silicon chips) who had a Main facility actually in Japan. They used the H-1B Visas to bring people from their Japan location, into the USA.
These were Engineers, fabricators (making wafers which are scored and broken into the little tiny dots of silicon) which are then inserted into the modern phones and other electronic equipment.
H-1B was never intended to be used for the average line worker .. they were intended for the college educated and higher paid salaried workers. We never used them for the line workers - ever.
What wage controls? They’re free to pay an American citizen any wage they can get him to agree to. This law aims to prevent them from sidestepping normal supply and demand by finding people willing to work for nothing, but with no legal right to work here, then getting the government to waive the rules about employment of non-citizens. In cases where there really are insufficient Americans to fill the positions, you can make the argument for H1B, but if the resulting wages are lower than American wages, it becomes obvious what they’re doing.
This is a good step, but they also need to cover the other end of it — outsourcing the jobs entirely to a foreign service provider. Call centers and IT hubs and cloud computing and engineering design offices overseas are all cheap foreign labor scams. American labor costs are replaced with Accounts Payable entries — just as deductible from profits but with none of the taxes paid into FICA and Personal Income Tax accounts. Worse, it is money that is not circulating in our economy, but in a foreign country’s economy.
Payments to service providers overseas should not be tax deductible business expenses. At the very least that would make those services effectively more expensive. Maybe also collect the full 15.3% FICA taxes and individual income taxes at a flat top marginal rate on those payments. I haven’t thought of a workable better alternative to discouraging foreign services, but that would be a start.
Any “genius” that invents something or is a super specialist in some scientific or medical area can come to the USA anytime. Nobody is going to stop them. A university will get them in/sponsor them. You don’t need an H-1B visa quota at all. There aren’t 65,000 Albert Einsteins in the entire world. Maybe 10 tops.
H-1B visas are not for filling the ranks of call centers.
“A legislation has been introduced...”
Seems they have farmed out this article to a non-American writer.
“The High-Skilled Integrity and Fairness Act of 2017 introduced by California Congressman Zoe Lofgren prioritises market based allocation of visas to those companies willing to pay 200 per cent of a wage calculated by survey, eliminates the category of lowest pay, and raises the salary level at which H-1B dependent employer are exempt from non-displacement and recruitment attestation requirements to greater than $130,000.”
Looks like a step in the right direction, but I’d read the fine print.
Immigration legislation has a long history of deceptive characteristics intended to make a bill that actually increases immigration sound like it will reduce immigration. Or the same thing with enforcement, guest workers etc.
Just kill the damn thing.
Guy... this is a good thing.. and i think Trump will like it because it is creative
In high tech company replace domestic Hi-Tech workes / domestic engineers...with cheap foreign labor using H-1B program. Which is supposed to only be used for finding workers that you can’t find in the US
I saw this first hand at American Express’s Datacenter American Express owns whole apartment blocks where they hire and house cheap Indian labor
So effectively if you need an H-1B hire you have to pay double the rate ... effective with putting a tariff on them
So a company if they really can’t find the worker in the u.s. then will pay the freight but they won’t use the H-1B to get cheap labor an undercut American engineers
Its a great idea to end h1b program abuse without blocking its used for what it was intended for unique talent that they simply can’t find in the US
I am not much of a union guy. But to me it is pretty obvious that STEM workers need to organize and fight for work visa elimination and higher wages. Yes, a STEM union. Yeah I said it.
Such bull sh!t. There are maybe 10 people in the world that have abilities and talent that cannot be found in the USA. Not 65,000.
Something needs to be done to stop these new indentured servants from taking American jobs.
Big business and big government are both guilty of conniving in this H1B scam.
G.K. Chesterton recognized that big government and big business are just two sides of the same coin with common interests; he called them "Hudge and Gudge."
Why is it bull shit?? Labor is a prduct
Do you support tariff on foreign product import or do you support simply banning product import?
Putting a limit of putting a price of double the market rate on foreign labor is a tariff on foreign labor effectively limiting its use to when needed
...look im an IT network engineer...and I travel all the time outside of the US to work ..reason being that our US Company sells our product and service overseas they need to send their people over there that’s been trained on it..
In the last two yers ive worked in eight different foreign countries both in South America and Asia... oddly the hardest place to go in to do work is Canada they’re very strict
I was at New Delhi Airport and one guy approached me to fill his airport embankment card. That guy was illiterate in English, no college education, but had H1 B visa, sponsored by Silicon Valley IT company.
They use fake degree, fake experience, some one else give interviews and they get H1B visa.
My cousin in UK, started taking pictures of those come for job interview in India and compare with picture on visa application.
The system Japan uses is a 25% premium over the prevailing wage.
It makes sense that if you need t hire a premium employee unavailable domestically, you should be willing to pay a premium wage!
Exceptionally good new. The floor is still too low, but it’s better than $60K.
If the SillyKorn valley Billionaires Boy club doesn’t complain about it, you will then know that it has no teeth.
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