Each year, demand for these temporary foreign workers far exceeds the supply — which is capped at 65,000 — but the proposed rule would exempt certain types of workers from that cap. Any business could hire an unlimited number of foreign workers on H-1Bs under the rule, so long as the workers spent 51 percent of their time working for a university, non-profit or government research agency.
The visas are intended to help companies bring in highly-skilled foreign workers for jobs Americans can’t fill, but some companies are reportedly using them to cut labor costs. The Walt Disney Company, Southern California Edison, Fossil Group and other companies have reportedly laid off hundreds of tech workers in the past year, replacing them with foreign workers on H-1B visas hired by contractors.
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5 comments:
Screwing the blacks again, but you voted for him. Hope & change.
What they really need to do is take this program to almost nothing....along with welfare, food-stamps, and obama-phones! Then the welfare leeches can be offerred one of these positions - turn it down and get nothing!
Did the President pay for that fruit?
They are willing to work for low wages and that will put small businesses who pay top wages out of business.It happens locally with most outdoor businesses here.
I don't think many of the "welfare class" are going to be qualified or otherwise capable of doing these type of skilled jobs.
Now, offering them the low skill tomato picking and chicken plucking jobs that Mexicans come here to do...that's something they'd be reasonably qualified for.
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