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> they need to be paid at least the prevailing wage in their location/job level. I mean if you follow the law sure. It's easy to either just pay them below ma
by lesuorac 1y ago
> they need to be paid at least the prevailing wage in their location/job level.
I mean if you follow the law sure.
It's easy to either just pay them below market or hire them at a lower title than the role actually requires.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/h1b_visa_fraud/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/09/h1b_visa_fraud/
https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage-theft-in-the-h-1b-program/ https://www.epi.org/publication/new-evidence-widespread-wage...
- fredfoobar 1y agoFraud should be curbed and punished, but I don't understand why the visa itself is bad because of this, that's like saying people speed and break traffic laws, therefore we must ban vehicles entirely.
- lesuorac 1y agoAfaik, the federal rule doesn't propose banning H1-B entirely. Nor was I proposing that. So, it's more like saying "people speed and break traffic laws, therefore we're going to improve enforcement". Reasonable statement to me.
- fredfoobar 1y agoagreed
- const_cast 1y agoOr the ultimate work-around, pay then the same and work them twice as hard. Boom, half the wage and nobody can tell! How many of these consulting companies just have the most awful, toxic company culture imaginable? I don't think that's a coincidence - that's a purposefully engineered cost saving strategy.
- fredfoobar 1y agoThat won't work as well as you think it does. This would come off as them being skilled enough to do the work in half the time an American would. That said, consulting companies out of India are horrible, I don't think they'd be more productive even if they worked twice as hard.