Shouldn't job preference be given to American workers first? The economy is struggling, and many young people can't find decent jobs. Yet, this administration is not enforcing any rule in the labor or immigration process to ensure that companies interview American workers before hiring others.
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@bh hooray for worker exploitation! Just don't wonder why people don't have jobs when your entire team is made up of offshored labor.
The "they are paid less" is not something I've seen in IT. Many times these people are making as much or more as their American counterparts.
The good thing about hiring H1B employees is that they don’t complain about RTO. They’re willing to work 10 hour days. My entire team is on H1B.
@b0 Not the OP, but the requirement is that to hire H1Bs, you have to show you're "not adversely affecting the US labor market". Everyone knows they're doing this when they work for a company that employs a high percentage of H1Bs.
@grok
@OP Do you know for a fact that they are violating laws or just speculating?
That was the entire point of the 100 large fee recently enacted for new H1Bs. It places a premium on H1Bs to ensure a company actually DOES look for citizens or green card holders first.
H1B visa abuse is the dirty little open secret that neither party wants to address for the past 20 years. They've NEVER enforced looking for US citizens before they hire an H1B. Everyone knows it happens, but the government has looked the other way because.... cheap labor.
The media plays along because they're lazy, and prefer to just listen to companies who want the cheap labor, and not the front line workers who know the truth.
It's very much been one of those stories anyone in tech knows full well about, but only rarely does the worker angle get any play, and not the employer angle.
Cool...is this the USA Government layoff page?
Do you really think they care? They don’t.
All the big contracting firms and companies like Amazon etc hire H1B so they can pay them less and get rid of them when they don’t need them.
Agree 100% - companies like WF/Chase know they can crack the whip when dealing with H1bs, since they are beholden to the sponsor and can be terminated / returned to the slop-hole where they came from.
There is action taken --- > https://www.boundless.com/blog/trump-administration-to-propose-new-100000-fee-for-h-1b-visa-applications