Trump is aligned with Senator Sessions’ legislation in December.
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“Sessions introduced the bill along with Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. The legislation was inspired by cases at Southern Con Edison and Florida Disney where American workers were forced to train their foreign replacements before being fired.
If the bill passes Congress, H1-B visas would be cut from 65,000 to 50,000.
Ron Hira, an H1-B visa expert at Howard University, said the proposal by Sessions and Nelson would stop companies from taking advantage of the current program as Florida Disney and Southern Consolidated Edison did.
“More than 80 percent of H-1B visas are awarded to workers being paid less than the average wage in their field. Many of those H-1B workers have lower skills than the American counterparts they are going to replace, and the American workers often have to train their H-1B replacements,” he said. “Instead of giving visas to foreign workers with ordinary skills, this bill would allocate the visas only to the most highly skilled foreign workers – making it more difficult for employers to abuse the program.”
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/12/sessions_introduces_bill_to_cu.html
Training your underpaid replacement. That sucks. Is that an argument FOR labor unions??
Thank you. I appreciate the additional details.