"Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate, introduced a bill with Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a Republican hard-liner on immigration, to sharply increase the minimum wage for H-1B workers to $110,000 a year, to discourage outsourcing companies from using the workers to lower wages" The Cruz-Sessions legislation is called the American Jobs First Act of 2015 (S.2394). Contact your senator today, tell them to sign on as a sponsor.
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Be careful what you ask for. For companies like Verizon that are rife with Indian management, a "minimum wage" for H1B's will only further encourage them to hire their friends. If they have to pay someone 110K, it is a no-brainer who they will hire.
No, the only solution to the H1B problem is an immediate and complete overhaul of the system to require hiring companies to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that no Americans are available for the job. And for those companies that pad the job requirements to make it appear that no Americans are qualified, make the hiring manager sign a document that the job description is indeed accurate under penalty of a huge fine or imprisonment.
You folks know that there is a minimum wage for H1B's... and that it is a significantly higher wage than minimum wage?
If #H1B is to hire the best and the brightest of the world, the threshold should be $200K not $110K which is peanuts in high cost areas (California, NYC, DC, etc.) - they will accomplish nothing on 110K