On 2015-12-18 13:39, David Schwartz wrote:
Do you mean H-1B visas?
I read H2 - non agricultural workers.
I see it is low skilled workers. Sorry to post here. I thought it
meant anyone except agricultural workers. My apologies.
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/spending-bill-quadruple-h-2b-visas-2016
This is really sad, because there’s already so much fraud around this
that it’s silly. Congress knows about it, and they have refused to do
anything to address it.
There are tons of Indian recruiting firms that set up shop
specifically to funnel their friends here under H-1B visas. I’m
contacted by them regularly. The only thing they want to know is your
“rate and availability”, then they almost always tell me that the
client isn’t willing to pay more than $22 or $23 per hour, or a salary
above $55k-$60k. This is for supposedly “senior” roles!
I think they’re simply trying to document the “fact” that they’re
unable to hire US Citizens for these jobs in order to justify
somebody’s H-1B visa.
The major impetus behind this effort has come from the biggest
software employers in the country: Microsoft, HP, Apple, Oracle, IBM,
etc.
It costs them $50k to prosecute every one of these visas! That’s on
top of salary and benefits.
See, this is what happens when taxes are so low that there’s no
Please explain what you mean by low taxes.
leverage to implement tax benefits. They’d rather spend $50k to hire a
foreigner and bring them over here than spend a plugged nickel on
retraining unemployed US Citizens.
H-1B job holders also have a “hidden benefit” in that it’s a
guaranteed job until their green card issues, which takes between five
and ten years right now.
To reward taxpayers for this, we’re being shoved into contract roles
with no benefits so they can cut costs quickly if their financials
take a hit. No job security, no retirement, no health benefits.
But those foreigners coming here under H-1B visas … they’re making out
like bandits!
Has anybody noticed how few employers are paying relocation expenses
these days? Wouldn’t you love to be treated the same was new college
grads from India and Pakistan?
At least Congress could reverse Section 1706 of the Tax Code that
eliminates the “safe harbor” provision for contractors in the tech
industry. This is what forces most companies to hire through job shops
rather than hire 1099 contractors directly. Lots of industries are
exploding by accessing labor directly as 1099 contractors, except the
tech industry is still saddled with this stupid and counter-productive
restriction that has never done what it was believed it would.
-David "The Tool Wiz" Schwartz
On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Keith Smith <[email protected]>
wrote:
I just read this about our U.S.Government spending bill :
Tucked into the 2,009-page spending bill is a provision that would
quadruple the number of H-2B visas allowed annually from 66,000 to
264,000.
I wonder how may of the tech companies in the Chandler Price Corridor
will be taking advantage of this while being subsidised by the City of
Chandler.
I expect most of those companies use Linux in one form or another.
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Keith Smith
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