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It's always companies that specialize in offshoring caught doing this. Why do these companies get H1B visas when there are companies willing to pay better that
by cheriot 8y ago
It's always companies that specialize in offshoring caught doing this. Why do these companies get H1B visas when there are companies willing to pay better that don't?
Turn H1B into an auction. Lotteries are a terrible way to allocate a scare resource.
- candiodari 8y agoThey're also a way to reward exploitation. Why ? Because exploiters can just rapid-fire requests and therefore increase their odds massively, but companies that want specific high-performers cannot, because there aren't that many.
- bduerst 8y agoH1B auctions would drive wages down for American citizens. Companies could hire immigrants for less than what the prevailing wage is of citizens working the same job in the same area - then lay off the citizens.
- tomp 8y agoWhy wouldn’t that happen already now?
- nitwit005 8y agoThen you'd just adjust the pool of openings till it stopped being an issue. We control the supply, so we can set the price. And you're kind of overlooking that the program is already heavily used for what you're afraid of.
- bduerst 8y agoThen you'd drastically lower the inflow number of skilled laborers contributing to the U.S. economy - which is the opposite purpose of the H1B program.
- sanxiyn 8y agoYou can have both auction and prevailing wage requirement.
- bduerst 8y agoThen what problem does the auction solve that the prevailing wage doesn't already solve, other than creating more issues.
- sanxiyn 8y agoIt solves a problem of real employers and body shops competing for the lottery. Body shops lose the auction.
- bduerst 8y agoUSCIS has already cracked down on body shops - they're now required to prove that the consultant is already working for a customer, meaning they can't spam applicants and then work the one's that make it through the lottery.
- ivan_gammel 8y agoThis would happen if supply of workforce would be higher than the demand. Why would a company fire someone when even with immigration demand is not met?
- bduerst 8y agoConsidering that a wage of $32k/yr puts you in the top 1% of the world, I don't think companies will have this opposite problem of no supply.
- ivan_gammel 8y agoInsufficient supply is exactly the case with skilled workforce and the reason visa programs like H1B and European BlueCard exist at all. The wage auction that will close the bodyshop loopholes will shift the supply from importing the cheap workforce to importing more skilled people and there, in the higher salary ranges, it may depress wages a bit. But, frankly speaking, I would not care about a dev who earns $150k in some tech company in the Valley if his salary will be closer to $80-$100k because of the free market. Those money could be better invested or spent on taxes.
- bduerst 8y agoInsufficient local supply is why the programs exist, not international supply. If international supply was insufficient then the programs wouldn't exist.
- cheriot 8y agoNo, limiting them to the highest bidders means they'll actually be used to bring in only the most talented and skilled. That will grow the size of the pie and the entire country wins. Resume the brain drain.