Will this impact NB?
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in our group we had 2 americans and 3 visa / Green card holders. Unfortunately 2 americans were let go by an american manager.
The clown who posted that an international move can be done with $5k and the person pockets $25-$30k is a clueless mo-on. The company that packs and ships an entire house internationally would charge anywhere from $12k to $18k (this is paid straight to the company, not via the employee - so you don’t get to keep the change!). Then there is cost for one month of lodging (again paid directly, so expat can’t put it in his pocket). All the employee gets is a month of salary as extra. This is to compensate for the losses one would incur (for example, you will have to throw away most of the electrical items such as TV, home theater, refrigerator, dishwasher, washing machine, toaster, blender, cooker etc and buy new due to differences in voltages). They also cannot bring cars, motorcycles, in some cases even bicycles. On top of that, the employee ends up paying tax for all the money spent for the move (meaning employee pays tax for the money paid to the shipping company, fees for any consultants, lodging etc). So once everything is factored in, in most cases the employee will loose money. They usually do the international move for career reasons. So before you spread such stupidity try to get facts.
Adios muchchos!!!! The airport is open.
No Qualified candidates in the US? Give me a break. The entire category management team is nothing but a bunch of Indians that have scratched each other’s backs. Why? Because the Senior Director of Cat Mgmt has stated openly that he’s trying to replace his entire team of subordinates with people from New Delhi and refuses to hire ANY Americans.
No one cares about your pitty party. This company should have rid themselves of foreign workers in the US long ago. 30k for you to move? Give me a break. It wouldn’t cost you more than 5k-10k to move the contents of an entire home AND your automobiles anywhere in the world and it’s extremely unlikely you would have brought your automobiles from over seas. You most likely did what every single person I’ve ever spoken to that was from Overseas did and pocketed the remaining 20-25k for yourselves.
I don't think you'll find any sympathy here...Not finding competent Americans for a position translates to Halliburton being lazy. They will bring in people with promises and string them along with promises and most foreigners come because they want that green card...that translates into greed... So you're sleeping in the bed you made for yourself.
What local people? You can’t fill technical knowledge and skills needed in Sperry with burger flipping skills!
wireline will be mazalama.
Good, No more Indian and chinese contarctors then. Sperry is going to be out of business. Its abot time they start hiring local people.
While this sounds like great news for Americans, it's all smoke and mirrors that will have little effect on the millions of Americans laid off right now. This executive order only affects the issuance of new H1B visas until the end of the year. The year is already half over, and most of those visas have already been issued. This affects a handful of foreign workers at most. Most importantly, the 500,000+ visa holders already in the US get to stay here and keep the jobs they already took away from US workers.
And there's no reasonable expectation that big companies will even follow the new rules. They use immigration law firms such as Berry Appelman Leiden LLP in Houston to ignore the visa rules and keep H1Bs on the payroll despite job applications from more-qualified US citizens.
The H1B program is not, and has never been, about filling jobs for which there are not enough qualified Americans. That is a lie. It's all about corporate power and control.
What's one way that big tech companies commit visa fraud? The law says that when a H1B visa comes due for renewal, a job posting for the position must be made publicly, and if a qualified American citizen applies for it, they must be hired instead of the H1B visa holder, and the visa is not renewed. Companies get around this by posting the job ads in places that are technically "public," but nowhere a real job candidate would ever find them, such as in the classifieds section of obscure industry journals like the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Or, as Amazon does, in the classifieds of the printed version of the Seattle Times Sunday edition. The printed classifieds are full of job ads from Amazon and other tech companies. The catch is that to apply for them, you have to mail in a printed application to a P.O. box. Does anyone seriously believe there's a person opening envelopes and reviewing printed resumes that landed in a P.O. box like it's still 1972? Of course not. This is simply a way to make it impossible for a qualified American citizen to apply for one of these jobs already held by an H1B visa holder, because the company has no intention of giving up that visa. Or, they will instruct a manager to print out a job posting and discreetly post it on a company bulletin board in a break room, right next to the government notices about minimum wage that nobody reads.