Timothy:
You make a broad brush stroke in blue.
There are *DOCUMENTED* instances where IT is coached into putting an
ad into the paper asking for the world in qualifications and then put
in a low salary in the same ad.
This is used to show the "need" for more IT workers at a reduced
rate. Justifying the need to go overseas for people.
There is an industry of people just for doing this.
In reality as both you and I know this is just a way to get cheaper
labor.
About 20 years ago a company I worked for hired one of these workers.
What they got was a semi trained individual that could barely do JCL.
He had a contract for 6 months and was promptly lost when his
contract was up.
I am not sure this example proves anything except he lied on his resume.
Ed
On Jul 3, 2015, at 2:52 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
One should not overinterpret the available wage evidence.
Businesses do
have reasonable needs to bring in foreign workers and managers at
least for
some period of time. Export-oriented businesses, for example,
really do
need to have staff circulation to/from overseas in order to boost
their
exports. It's also fairly easy to imagine skills requirements that
only a
foreign worker could address in reasonable fashion within a reasonable
period of time. I imagine there's not a super abundance of experts in
German contract law (and German language contracts) living in Peoria,
Illinois, for example, but that sort of skill might be super
important to a
particular employer.
Some countries -- Japan comes to mind -- have a ratio (or at least
a ratio
sanity check) policy, meaning that employers are permitted to bring
in X
number of foreign workers as long as they maintain or better yet
increase
the number of local workers by some multiple of X. Perhaps that ratio
varies by profession or industry to some extent. That sort of approach
would appear to address at least the bulk of employers' needs.
To summarize, foreign workers can and should be welcomed...within a
reasonable immigration policy. "Reasonable" means based on the
economics
and reality. Just to pick an example, I'd really like to see even
more top
university graduates in the U.S. be able to pursue careers in the
U.S. if
they wish and under reasonable terms. That sort of approach would be
pro-skills, pro-talent. As another example, as I understand it the
current
H-1B visa program is tied to a specific sponsoring employer. In my
view
foreign workers shouldn't be captive to a specific employer. They
should be
able to "jump ship" for better working conditions and compensation, at
least after, say, 120 days. Otherwise (in my view) some of their
employers
would be tempted to exploit them in various ways including
compensating
them below market rate for their skills.
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