Can someone help me understand this. When tech companies are doing mass layoffs why are they still employing H1Bs? I thought the whole idea is to hire someone from another country IF they can’t find US citizen to do the job. How are they able to keep hiring H1Bs while firing US Citizens?
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I'm not sure the legal position in H1B labor certification is that there is no American to do the job. It is that it is a speciality occupation, requiring a certain skill set, and the foreign citizen is being paid prevailing wage. More consequentially, whatever made you think the US gov't acts in a manner that befits the average American citizen? Why then would we have NAFTA, or WTO or 30+ years of outsourcing manufacturing? It is hilarious when educated people suddenly turn protectionist.
there should be some rule that if it's too many % or amount unemployed in a certain industry, they should not be allowed to hire immigrants. it's just fair
Yawn 🥱
You’re next h1b
Why do you think only citizens were laid off ?
What a scam! Hasan Minhaj should expose this.
🤣 did you just wake up from sleep .
Okay send us all home and see how tech companies will do.
Yeah! I’m fine with it as well
I would keep people who are actually doing programming. But a lot of H1Bs are just managing people and play politics all day. They should go back.
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That’s only for new H1bs. Once they’re in the US, the test isn’t done again.
H1B is processed or transferred during the joining process. Do you expect companies to layoff H1Bs to accommodate already laid off US citizens? Or just stop new transfer of H1B.
Simple — h1bs were brought in to fill gaps in the labor market, so when there are layoffs they should be the first to go
Because they’re abusing the system. They can pay H1Bs less so of course they stay around
FAANG is not paying less. Lots of H1Bs making 1M TC.
Define “lots” lol. There’s a small handful of SWEs in the entire world making that much. The vast majority of them aren’t H1Bs either.