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Reply to "Are U.S. jobs vulnerable to workers with H-1B visas?"

ba$eman posted:

H1B people are not picking apples, mowing lawns or shoveling snow or changing oil.  They are actually highly skilled and are granted access to Companies innermost operating ERP and other systems.  It is the companies who grant access, not the employment agencies, and they (company) ensure full compliance with US labor laws before doing so.  So there is little chance H1B's are working "under the table".

However, H1B's are used to reduce costs by flooding the country with technical expertise which is available in the US, but instead of paying 100k, they get an H1b for 60k.  Trump's policies will seek to place a higher lower limit on H1B's at 100k/130k.  This means only very specialized skills workers will meet the requirement opening up opportunities for a vast amount of displaced American workers.

Just today I met a Tata Consultancy manager who said that TTC is now rebalancing it's workforce reducing their dependency on H1B and will hire more US expertise.  At 100k, the costs differential advantage is all but gone.

Trump is on the right path...on this!

Trump needs to hurry up on implementing this. Over the past 8 years 90% of my colleagues fell at the wayside due to losing their jobs to h1b visa holders.  Right now the US employee to h1b visa ratio is 80% to 20% in many US tech companies. In my area they are paying H1b 85k, 60k salary and 25k extra to bring them up to current US regulations on salary floor.  In fact most US born IT professionals are telling their children to find other fields of study. 

FM
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