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> Raising tech salaries and reducing the ridiculous exploitation of immigrant tech workers is good. Why not keep the H-1B floor at 60,000, but require employer
by Alex3917 10y ago
> Raising tech salaries and reducing the ridiculous exploitation of immigrant tech workers is good.
Why not keep the H-1B floor at 60,000, but require employers to contribute another 60,000 to a fund to pay for Americans to be retrained as tech workers?
- Benjamin_Dobell 10y agoI don't think that's particularly fair on immigrants. It sets a double standard as to what people are worth. PS. Also Australian... yeah, we're awake at this time. EDIT: To clarify, I'm not at all suggesting screw over Americans either. I'd not be thrilled working in any industry where I'd spent years getting qualifications, just to be constantly undercut by any group of people. However, I don't think encouraging companies to underpay a certain segment of humans is an ethical way to resolve the problem.
- Alex3917 10y ago> I don't think that's particularly fair on immigrants. It sets a double standard as to what people are worth. How so? The minimum wage for H-1Bs is over 4x higher than the minimum wage for Americans. If Americans had a minimum wage of 60k per year and immigrants were getting paid $7.25 per hour then that would be one thing, but it's currently the other way around.
- Benjamin_Dobell 10y agoSo, ah... What you want is the American minimum wage increased to $100,000 and to leave the immigrant minimum wage at $60,000? Yeah... I can't see that being abused at all. Good luck with that.
- wdcgu 10y agoIt's called a free market. Too bad if you're on the losing end.
- flukus 10y agoBecause the same companies will open training programs that provide $50 worth of education to the Americans and pocket the rest. Probably even make them do mandatory job training alongside the H1bs and triple dip.
- c0nducktr 10y agoKinda like a certain defunct university....