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| Biden Backs Off Wage Protections for Americans Facing H-1B Outsourcing |
| 2023-07-08 |
| [Breitbart] President Joe Biden, who recently met with India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is seemingly delaying wage protections for American white-collar workers at risk of being laid off and forced to train their foreign replacements, primarily from India, through the H-1B visa program. In January 2021, just before leaving office, then-President Trump issued an updated Department of Labor rule to protect the jobs and wages of American professionals and graduates from low-paid foreign H-1B visa workers imported by United States companies to replace them. “The U.S. Department of Labor is taking these steps to strengthen wage protections, address abuses in visa programs, and protect American workers from being undercut by cheaper foreign labor,” former Labor Department Secretary Eugene Scalia said at the time. The rule set wage floors so that U.S. companies importing foreign H-1B visa workers would have to do so by paying them at prevailing wage rates. The goal was to stop outsourcing schemes by such companies designed solely to cut labor costs at the expense of Americans. A report from SHRM.org notes that Biden’s Labor Department, in recent weeks, has moved the wage rule “to its long-term agenda, historically the first step to a proposal being shelved permanently.” “The gutting of the wage reform is just part of this administration’s plan to please the Chamber of Commerce. American workers be damned,” Kevin Lynn with U.S. Tech Workers, which advocates on behalf of American white-collar professionals facing layoffs and wage cuts as a result of mass legal immigration, told Breitbart News. The move indicates that the Biden administration is delaying the rule in a win for U.S. companies using the H-1B visa program and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ,which has long opposed pro-American worker reforms to the program. “Biden ran on a pro-worker platform. The prevailing wage reforms were listed in his policy proposals regarding immigration,” Lynn said. “But what Biden says and his admin actually does are worlds apart because ‘Bidenomics’ is a two-step scam: Claim you’re bringing industries back to America, but then having cheap foreign labor filling these jobs.” The rule’s delay comes as Biden held a state dinner at the White House for Modi. The H-1B visa program continues to prove profitable for India’s outsourcing lobby, as well as China. In Fiscal Year 2022, the federal government allowed U.S. companies to import more than 442,000 foreign H-1B visa workers to take white-collar American jobs — more than 85 percent of which arrived from India and China. Men from India were given 76 percent of the H-1B visas allotted to all Indian nationals last year. For years, Breitbart News has chronicled the abuses against white-collar American professionals as a result of the H-1B visa program. Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their foreign replacements, as highlighted by Breitbart News. The Department of Justice (DOJ), in April, found that a company had discriminated against American job applicants in favor of foreign H-1B visa workers whom they could hire more cheaply. In recent months, Breitbart News reported how Silicon Valley’s biggest tech corporations continued to lay off tens of thousands of Americans as they imported more than 34,000 foreign H-1B visa workers to take U.S. science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs. Likewise, in February, State Farm announced that it would lay off more than 450 of its American employees in a move that outsources its Information Technology (IT) work to HCL Technologies, an India-based outsourcing firm that imports foreign H-1B visa workers to do much of the work. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Well, we either have a free market or don't and have protectionism. While Americans are graduating with degrees in "Urban History" and "Women's Literature from the 1950's" and want their student loans forgiven thereby throwing out centuries of contract law, foreigners are learning real skills. And if companies accept the risk that any proprietary software (Linux users excepted) makes its way back to the home nation of the H-1B visa recipient, then that's on the company (and in the end, just too g-d damn bad). |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-07-08 18:26 |
| #3 /\ .......access to the American company's internal systems through "back doors" over the internet during the middle of the night for another fee. I have seen that happen first hand. You mean like voting machines? Yes, we may have seen that application as well. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-07-08 03:23 |
| #2 One of the biggest problems of hiring an H-1B foreign worker to write proprietary software for your company is the code "somehow" makes it back to that workers country, resold to buyers in that country for huge sims to the worker who stole it from the American company he is working for. And they also allow foreigners access to the American company's internal systems through "back doors" over the internet during the middle of the night for another fee. I have seen that happen first hand. |
| Posted by: Slats Snore5077 2023-07-08 01:13 |
| #1 H-1B program originally was to bring in a limited number of foreign workers to fill positions that did not have American workers available to fill. Some where along the way the government changed that drastically to destroy the American middle class instead. |
| Posted by: Slats Snore5077 2023-07-08 00:43 |