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Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:29 pm to goldennugget
Amazing how people will support importing immigrants to take American jobs but then cry when others shipped to China or lost to Hispanic immigrants. If merit is above all else, then open the gates to Hispanic blue collar workers, they outwork white, homegrown workers by a large factor. Otherwise, you’re just a hypocrite.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:31 pm to crazy4lsu
Indeed.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:31 pm to roadGator
Glad you agree. Good talk. Run along now.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:34 pm to goldennugget
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:34 pm to POTUS2024
quote:
Every time you go on a posting spree on the board, you expose yourself as a bitter, hateful, and evil person. You either have severe mental illness or a substance abuse problem, perhaps both.
I thought that was me that you usually said this about. If you say this about somebody else, he must have a good point.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:40 pm to POTUS2024
This is from the Economic Policy Institute.
April 2023
Tech and outsourcing companies continue to exploit the H-1B visa program at a time of mass layoffs
Key takeaways:
The H-1B visa program was created to fill labor shortages in professional fields and could be a valuable temporary work visa program, but new data show it is being subverted by employers that are not facing labor shortages and by outsourcing firms.
H-1B use is overly concentrated among a small number of employers. In 2022, the top 30 H-1B employers hired more than 34,000 new H-1B workers, accounting for 40% of the total annual cap of 85,000.
The top 30 companies also laid off, or will imminently lay off, at least 85,000 workers in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023.
Thirteen of the top 30 H-1B employers were outsourcing firms that underpay migrant workers and offshore U.S. jobs to countries where labor costs are much lower.
Laid-off H-1B workers, who likely number in the thousands, must find a new employer to sponsor their visa within 60 days after their layoff or they may be forced to leave the United States.
President Biden should use executive authority to fix the H-1B program and implement new rules that raise wages for migrant workers and prevent outsourcing companies from exploiting the H-1B program.
The H-1B program has many flaws that have become especially evident in light of recent mass layoffs in the tech sector. Instead of being used to fill genuine labor shortages in skilled occupations without negatively impacting U.S. workers’ wages and working conditions, the latest data show that the H-1B’s biggest users are companies that have laid off tens of thousands of workers in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. The rest of the companies that dominate the program have an outsourcing business model that exploits the program by underpaying skilled migrant workers and offshoring U.S. jobs...
The H-1B program was created with the intent to attract skilled and talented workers to the United States to fill labor shortages in professional fields—a sensible goal that has widespread support. But its implementation has been bungled by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Homeland Security. Since employers aren’t required to test the U.S. labor market to see if any workers are available before hiring an H-1B worker or pay their H-1B workers a fair wage, employers have exploited the program. Rather than turning to the H-1B program as a last resort when U.S. workers cannot be found, most employers hire H-1B workers because they can be underpaid and are de facto indentured to the employer. This is evidenced by government data showing that technology companies continue to hire H-1B workers in large numbers while significantly reducing the sizes of their workforces...
As Table 1 shows, 13 of the top 30 H-1B employers announced layoffs in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. The layoffs at those companies totaled nearly 85,000, the same number as the H-1B annual numerical limit for cap-subject employers...
Amazon was at the top of the list in terms of both new H-1B workers and layoffs...
Together, Google and Meta laid off 33,000 employees, almost 11 times the number of new H-1B workers they hired in 2022. For more than a decade, top Google and Meta executives have been at the forefront of industry’s public calls for large increases in the H-1B cap, with Meta creating a lobby group, FWD.US, almost exclusively to push for more visas...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates himself has testified before the U.S. Congress to decry the cap on H-1B visas...
As we discussed in depth last year, this continues to be problematic because outsourcing companies—which have a fissured business model, do not make a product, and are staffing firms that resell labor to other firms—have been associated with paying their H-1B workers the lowest wages permitted by law, much lower than the U.S. market rate. Wages account for the vast majority of information technology service firms’ operating costs, but the outsourcing firm business model is viable only if it cuts the customers’ labor costs substantially while also earning profits for its shareholders. After cutting costs in the United States by using the H-1B visa, the outsourcers realize further cost savings and profits by shipping as many of the U.S. jobs and tasks as possible to their overseas operations where wages for tech workers are substantially lower....
And finally, among the top outsourcing firms, only one—IBM—announced layoffs, with 3,900 workers laid off after hiring 1,239 new H-1B workers. Over the years, however, there have been countless shocking revelations in the press about how outsourcing companies have used the H-1B program to help U.S. companies subvert the law to lay off hundreds of their well-paid employees at a time. U.S. companies do this by contracting with major outsourcing firms like Infosys (#2 on the top 30), Tata (#3), Cognizant (#4), and HCL (#7)—and replacing their employees with H-1B workers paid tens of thousands of dollars less. Some of the documented cases were with clients like Disney, Southern California Edison, and even the University of California....
April 2023
Tech and outsourcing companies continue to exploit the H-1B visa program at a time of mass layoffs
Key takeaways:
The H-1B visa program was created to fill labor shortages in professional fields and could be a valuable temporary work visa program, but new data show it is being subverted by employers that are not facing labor shortages and by outsourcing firms.
H-1B use is overly concentrated among a small number of employers. In 2022, the top 30 H-1B employers hired more than 34,000 new H-1B workers, accounting for 40% of the total annual cap of 85,000.
The top 30 companies also laid off, or will imminently lay off, at least 85,000 workers in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023.
Thirteen of the top 30 H-1B employers were outsourcing firms that underpay migrant workers and offshore U.S. jobs to countries where labor costs are much lower.
Laid-off H-1B workers, who likely number in the thousands, must find a new employer to sponsor their visa within 60 days after their layoff or they may be forced to leave the United States.
President Biden should use executive authority to fix the H-1B program and implement new rules that raise wages for migrant workers and prevent outsourcing companies from exploiting the H-1B program.
The H-1B program has many flaws that have become especially evident in light of recent mass layoffs in the tech sector. Instead of being used to fill genuine labor shortages in skilled occupations without negatively impacting U.S. workers’ wages and working conditions, the latest data show that the H-1B’s biggest users are companies that have laid off tens of thousands of workers in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. The rest of the companies that dominate the program have an outsourcing business model that exploits the program by underpaying skilled migrant workers and offshoring U.S. jobs...
The H-1B program was created with the intent to attract skilled and talented workers to the United States to fill labor shortages in professional fields—a sensible goal that has widespread support. But its implementation has been bungled by the U.S. Departments of Labor and Homeland Security. Since employers aren’t required to test the U.S. labor market to see if any workers are available before hiring an H-1B worker or pay their H-1B workers a fair wage, employers have exploited the program. Rather than turning to the H-1B program as a last resort when U.S. workers cannot be found, most employers hire H-1B workers because they can be underpaid and are de facto indentured to the employer. This is evidenced by government data showing that technology companies continue to hire H-1B workers in large numbers while significantly reducing the sizes of their workforces...
As Table 1 shows, 13 of the top 30 H-1B employers announced layoffs in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023. The layoffs at those companies totaled nearly 85,000, the same number as the H-1B annual numerical limit for cap-subject employers...
Amazon was at the top of the list in terms of both new H-1B workers and layoffs...
Together, Google and Meta laid off 33,000 employees, almost 11 times the number of new H-1B workers they hired in 2022. For more than a decade, top Google and Meta executives have been at the forefront of industry’s public calls for large increases in the H-1B cap, with Meta creating a lobby group, FWD.US, almost exclusively to push for more visas...
Microsoft founder Bill Gates himself has testified before the U.S. Congress to decry the cap on H-1B visas...
As we discussed in depth last year, this continues to be problematic because outsourcing companies—which have a fissured business model, do not make a product, and are staffing firms that resell labor to other firms—have been associated with paying their H-1B workers the lowest wages permitted by law, much lower than the U.S. market rate. Wages account for the vast majority of information technology service firms’ operating costs, but the outsourcing firm business model is viable only if it cuts the customers’ labor costs substantially while also earning profits for its shareholders. After cutting costs in the United States by using the H-1B visa, the outsourcers realize further cost savings and profits by shipping as many of the U.S. jobs and tasks as possible to their overseas operations where wages for tech workers are substantially lower....
And finally, among the top outsourcing firms, only one—IBM—announced layoffs, with 3,900 workers laid off after hiring 1,239 new H-1B workers. Over the years, however, there have been countless shocking revelations in the press about how outsourcing companies have used the H-1B program to help U.S. companies subvert the law to lay off hundreds of their well-paid employees at a time. U.S. companies do this by contracting with major outsourcing firms like Infosys (#2 on the top 30), Tata (#3), Cognizant (#4), and HCL (#7)—and replacing their employees with H-1B workers paid tens of thousands of dollars less. Some of the documented cases were with clients like Disney, Southern California Edison, and even the University of California....
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:43 pm to crazy4lsu
It really wasn’t. It was just you making up stupid shite.
But if you think that’s good then troll on, Scooter.
But if you think that’s good then troll on, Scooter.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:44 pm to crazy4lsu
. never mind
This post was edited on 12/24/24 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:48 pm to roadGator
For you it was definitely a high point. You've been struggling with coherence for the last few years. It only gets worse from here.
Run along.
Run along.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:51 pm to oldhickory1812
quote:
What you are saying is that any individual that wants to win in the current world, needs to work for the current overlords.
If that's what you took from that, then you definitely aren't going to win.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:55 pm to crazy4lsu
More made up shite. Nice job, Scooter.
Troll on, trollPOS
Troll on, trollPOS
Posted on 12/24/24 at 5:58 pm to roadGator
I couldn't troll without you brother.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 6:00 pm to crazy4lsu
You couldn’t make up shite without me.
Just for clarity.
Just for clarity.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 6:01 pm to roadGator
You seem angry about being replaced my guy. Sucks to suck.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 6:01 pm to crazy4lsu
What’s for dinner
Posted on 12/24/24 at 6:03 pm to crazy4lsu
I’m disappointed in your lame trolling attempts.
None of you Indians can do the job I do.
Sucks to suck indeed.
None of you Indians can do the job I do.
Sucks to suck indeed.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 6:03 pm to NIH
Some Cuban shite my in-laws are making.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 6:03 pm to roadGator
You've never been a troll to my recall.
Posted on 12/24/24 at 6:04 pm to crazy4lsu
Beautiful. Merry Christmas
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