Posted on 04/19/2016 5:27:01 PM PDT by markomalley
One of the top users of foreign workers imported via the H-1B visa program announced Tuesday it’s laying off about ten percent of its global workforce.
Tech giant Intel is laying off some 12,000 workers, although it’s one of the country’s 15 largest users of H-1Bs, which are temporary visas that allow companies to hire foreign workers for American tech jobs. The big-time layoffs come even as the company has called for hikes in the number of foreign workers it is able to hire using H-1B visas.
The chip-making giant said the mass firings are part of a “restructuring initiative” that will further its shift away from the PC business toward smart devices and cloud-based computing.
But the firings stand out in light of Intel’s lobbying to expand the H-1B visa program. In 2013, the company’s government affairs managers complained that Intel simply can’t find enough homegrown workers in technical fields to meet its needs. And in 2014, the company called for allowing the spouses and children of H-1B recipients to automatically qualify for work in the U.S. as well.
Ready made TV commercial for trump
The bag limit for H1Bs was reached in 5 days this federal fiscal year.
perfect topic for Trump rallies in California
Tech companies are abusing the law.
They are hollowing out their American workforce, and brining in Indian H1B visa replacements.
Congress must clamp down ... on their own donors. Or the voters are screwed again by the Uniparty!
Some folks are very vocal about the value of STEM workers, and our need as a country to convince more children to pursue work in technical fields.
Fact is, we have a lot of Americans who have skills in these areas. And we screw those people over and over and over.
If it cost an arm and a leg to hire a foreigner, we’d see less of this. I’d like to see a $50,000 annual tax paid by the company for every H-1b they hire.
Wasn’t Cruz all for multiplying the number of foreign tech workers by 5?
You got that right.
Between the GOP election rigging and allowing foreign workers to take
American jobs, Trump is exposing the GOP as frauds.
He will be back on track tonight.
Lyin' Ted.
Yes, they keep pushing STEM education, yet the percentage of STEM majors working in STEM is not high. Companies would rather hire foreigners at a lower wage.
Thats because you can't afford to feed a family on what an H1B visa holder gets paid.
Actually, it should be around a $500,000 tax per year per H1-B worker imported. That way they could subsidize each American engineer working a Macdonalds or Dennys with a $100,000 “H1-B Temporary Worker” subsidy.
What a POS!!! I can’t stand it when people talk about him being the Conservative Giant or whatever in the Senate. Anything he ever thumped his chest about, was a no win situation for him anyway. It was all for show.
The only real guy, right off the bat, is Sessions in Alabama. He tells it like it is, IMHO. Which is funny, because when I read Breitbart articles and they have the ‘CR’ ratings next to everyone. Sessions doesn’t seem all that high, while Cruz is at 97%. Doesn’t make any sense.
Substantially increase legal immigration....
Way to go. What a scumbag.
Thank you, BTW.
Having had three tours thru Intel ... just finished one last month ... I can tell you with some certain knowledge that Intel is Muslim central. The Muslims get into positions of authority and then hire only their own and get rid of anyone else. Been that way since my first tour with them in 2004 in Folsom. When their own screws up they hire high priced consultants (like me) for a year to go in and fix the problems made by the “blue badge” H1B’s
H1B visas——these are the ones that Ted Cruz want’s to increase from 65,000 to 500,000 per year. These are the “good” jobs. TPP includes allowing other countries who sign the agreement to have free unlimited access to all jobs in the USA. Ted is for TPA and TPP. Ted made it possible for China to join TPP AFTER it’s implemented (there was too much resistance to including them from the start.) All the STEM jobs will become either Chinese or Indians. All the service and laborer jobs will be Mexicans.
“I’d like to see a $50,000 annual tax paid by the company for every H-1b they hire.”
They’d pay that in a heartbeat. That’s only an additional $12.5K/year.
What they need to do is eliminate the 4 year slave rule. Companies won’t be as quick to hire a bunch of H1Bs knowing that they could jump ship at any time. They might have to *gasp* pay for talent.
There are companies looking to hire foreign candidates with some legitimately rare skills and are willing to pay them what they’re worth on the open market ... seems like those in charge of H1Bs only want people from India willing to work for 60% of market value for 4 years though.
I wish I could see a list of the scummy politicians that are benefiting from this slave trade financially. I’m sure virtually all of them think engineering is a simple job that nobody wants.
How do they make that relationship work with their Israeli operations?
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