You make a good point.
This skews the market.
Plus a minimum wage for these persons, more like what they would pay a recent college graduate.
Plus sponsoring organizations must offer the existing person the recent graduate wage plus 15% or so because of the experience.
But I hate legislating what private company HR departments can do. We need less regulation. Let the market work it out. Keep the American citizens first.
But if we must have this program, lets keep the American worker in mind.
“But if we must have this program, lets keep the American worker in mind.”
I agree 100% :-). If there really is some kind of “crisis” where companies in the USA don’t have enough STEM workers, then I am all for the H1B program so long as they do away with that slave-driving 4 year nonsense.
If H1B proponents are looking out for the interests of Americans, then they should frame the whole H1B debate this way instead of yelling “racist” when people question their motives.
Like I said earlier, I can see something like a 1 year retainer since it is expensive to move someone, but this 4 year garbage is sickening.
Engineering salaries are damaged by the whole H1B program. The only thing that program does in my field is create a whole bunch of panic mode mop up work when companies get too cheap to pay people what they’re worth.
When some HR idiot can chain a person to a cube for 4 years at 60% of what they are worth (and people figure out what they are worth rather quickly), quality is going to suffer. Of course, your average HR person is a flaming liberal without a care for anyone but their selves and their sicking ideology. H1B visa holders allow liberals to exploit people for their careers as well as their political message.
If any of these Republican candidates have a brain, they’d ask why H1B holders are forced to work at the same place for 4 years. That’ll get people talking :-).