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There's a simpler fix. Companies have gotten away for decades by posting ridiculous job qualifications and then turning around and claiming that since there is

There's a simpler fix. Companies have gotten away for decades by posting ridiculous job qualifications and then turning around and claiming that since there is no American they can find who is qualified to do the job, that they need to hire cheap foreign talent. I ran into that over and over again as a technical recruiter who would find teams of American citizens and green card holders suddenly displaced by H1s at half their rates. In these instances, companies should pay 150% of the going market compensation to the H1 employee for the position and an additional 50% to a fund which provides training to local job candidates to create future competition for the position.

Johnny555 8y ago
If the goal is to keep US employers competitive by letting them hire the best and brightest workers from around the world, doubling employee compensation costs is probably not going to achieve that - the companies will just open foreign offices. Which is already happening due to uncertainty of the entire program, my company shifted from opening a USA branch office to opening an european office to make it easier to hire european workers. And it's not like we're using H1-B's as cheap labor, all of our H1-B's are PhD's (well, maybe a few Master's degrees in the mix that have significant experience), and are well compensated. We have a strong USA college recruitment program too.