Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
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Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
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Re: Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
#2If you’re in the process of job searching, please mention this option to any company with less than 250 employees that you are in the recruitment process with.
Re: Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
#3The H-1B program is designed to suppress tech worker wages in the U.S. and create a more compliant workforce here. I'm not sure it is possible for a company to ethically use this program, and many outright use it for abuse https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...
Re: Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
#4Why? What is their motivation in offering this? It is not altruistic.
Re: Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
#5The H-1B program is designed to suppress tech worker wages in the U.S. and create a more compliant workforce here. I'm not sure it is possible for a company to ethically use this program, and many outright use it for abuse https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...
Re: Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
#6Why? What is their motivation in offering this? It is not altruistic.
You don't know their motivation yet you know it's not altruistic? Thems bold claims cotton.
Re: Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
#7The H-1B program is designed to suppress tech worker wages in the U.S. and create a more compliant workforce here. I'm not sure it is possible for a company to ethically use this program, and many outright use it for abuse https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...
To be fair, in during a downturn it actually helps US Citizens. Any laid off H1b who doesn't find a job soon will end up deported. This will prevent a large glut of labor considerably bringing US down wages.
Re: Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
#8"It is absolutely worth considering as data has shown that there are drastic shortages of STEM workers in the U.S."
Really? Still going with this? Especially the S and M?
Re: Free H-1B for laid off tech-workers
#9The H-1B program is designed to suppress tech worker wages in the U.S. and create a more compliant workforce here. I'm not sure it is possible for a company to ethically use this program, and many outright use it for abuse https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...
To be fair, in during a downturn it actually helps US Citizens. Any laid off H1b who doesn't find a job soon will end up deported. This will prevent a large glut of labor considerably bringing US down wages.
If the supply goes down as a response to falling demand that's not going to help anybody's wages...