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2017-02-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

India freaks out over U.S. plans to change high-skilled visas

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Posted by Skidmark 2017-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Give them green cards. Green card holders get the same taxes and benefits as citizens so when citizen compete with a green card holder its fair. Contrast that to competing with an H1B whose total costs with no ss, workman's comp, bennies, insurance etc is %20 to %30 less than a citizens. Right now H1B is similar in concept to an indentured servant from the capital cost point of view.

Posted by 3dc 2017-02-01 01:24|| 2017-02-01 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 US Businesses prefer H1B because the person cannot leave. I have dealt with IT contracting firms and h1b for many years and in my opinion it is unfair to the worker just trying to make a living.

Posted by Airandee 2017-02-01 06:22|| 2017-02-01 06:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Why is there no program to train Americans to fill these positions?

I've worked in many places as a consultant where H1Bs were numerous but virtually none of the work was such that an American couldn't have been trained up to fill it.

The cost difference is the driving force with the added attraction of flexibility of task and ease of removal.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-01 07:55|| 2017-02-01 07:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Also the H1B indentured servants are cheaper than Americans. The tech industry abuses the hell out of this since they make even more money laying off the American engineers who build the thing and bringing in skilled, cheap labor to maintain it.

I'm for raising the cost to force Google and its ilk to actually not fuck its American workers over as much. (They still will though)

Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-01 09:16|| 2017-02-01 09:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Excellent comments all. Thx for info. Jack

Posted by borgboy 2017-02-01 13:14|| 2017-02-01 13:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm for raising the cost to force Google and its ilk to actually not fuck its American workers over as much. (They still will though) Posted by: DarthVader

Note that Google, among other tech firms, objected to Trump immigrant 'ban'. Tech firms recall employees to U.S

I agree, eliminate the H1B program and issue green cards instead. One thing they seems to not notice, is that the ban only applies to seven high risk countries and not to any of the others so far. So really, it's a moot point for them, they seems to be making noises for some reasons.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-02-01 15:13|| 2017-02-01 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not just the cost savings. It is much easier to get rid of an H1B that's not cutting it or transfer them to some other activity.

The regs around getting rid of someone are not as bad as union work but it's still onerous.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-01 15:25|| 2017-02-01 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 I suspect a lot of tech companies will start building additional campuses in India and in the long run it will help India.

Now India needs to get rid of some of that corruption that has been cutting down the investment.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-02-01 15:50|| 2017-02-01 15:50|| Front Page Top

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