U.S. Senate's Big Immigration Bill Seeks Centralized Database For H-1B Jobs 251
dcblogs writes "The U.S. Senate comprehensive immigration bill, due Tuesday, will allow the H-1B cap to rise from 65,000 to as high as 180,000. The bill, overall, contains some interesting provisions. It will require the U.S. Labor Dept. to create a website of H-1B job openings that employers must post to. The jobs must be posted least 30 calendar days before hiring an H-1B applicant to fill that position. The bill also raises wages for H-1B workers to make them more competitive, although the amount wasn't specified. One provision that will affect India, in particular, limits H-1B visa use to 50% of a firm's U.S. workforce. The provision may prompt India firms to buy U.S. companies to expand their U.S. presence."
Re:why? (Score:5, Informative)
Corporate America's solution to unemployment is importing cheaper labor from other countries. I watched mouth agape as Bill Gates suggested this in an interview when asked about his ideas on how to deal with the Recession. Of course, corporate media never challenges their masters when they make these ludicrous statements.
Re:why? (Score:4, Informative)
So they can encourage foreign outsourcing?
H1B is already all about out-sourcing. The top 10 H1B employers, accounting for roughly half of all H1B visas, are out-sourcers. They bring people in on H1B, train them up and send them back. H1B is encouraging out-sourcing, not stopping it.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/03/176134694/Whos-Hiring-H1-B-Visa-Workers-Its-Not-Who-You-Might-Think [npr.org]
Re:So this H1B database of job openings... (Score:4, Informative)
Sure, but it won't do you any good. Any self-respecting company has legal staff that's seen the "How to not hire an American" video.
Interestingly, you can get links to that video from either DailyKos [dailykos.com] or Free Republic [freerepublic.com] (actually the first two sites in a search) so you can see that the outrage covers a pretty broad part of the political spectrum. Not that our congress cares - we're just the @#%#^! voters and citizens of this country.
Re:why? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:why? (Score:4, Informative)
I think this is really the break point for the bigger guys like IBM. That's why it's discussed now.
The horse is long out if the barn. For companies like IBM they have moved "outsourcing" in India to being just like an office across the country. IBM has basically bet the company on US sales forces selling Indian labor. You get a "US contact" for the first few months, but all the work is done by Indians.
I guess if you can admin your server room from your bed at 3am (and still work at 8am) your company can just pay an Indian guy to be awake at 3am and don't need you. The REAL money is in Project Management... Which quite ironically is not part of the MBA track-- to BUILD NEW THINGS? Of course Project Management is the skill of making yourself replaceable.. So the fact IT has embraced it is really going to bite us in the ass.
Re:What America needs ... (Score:4, Informative)
But that has nothing to do with H1B. H1B foreigners are actually exactly the opposite of those illegal immigrants. They have papers, they have a usable skill set and immigration knows pretty well where they sit around.