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The law itself is pretty idiotic. Why would an employer give up a well accustomed well proven candidate for the sake of some random guy, waste money to recruitm
by aiauthoritydev 1y ago
The law itself is pretty idiotic. Why would an employer give up a well accustomed well proven candidate for the sake of some random guy, waste money to recruitment and cross fingers that the employee would actually join and perform ?
It is like giving up a lottery ticket you have won for another lottery ticket.
Also, the law mandates certain compliance steps which the employers do. There is no expectation that they should actually hire someone else unless the compliance steps are violated. So everything is working exactly as intended.
This PERM process and law has harmed countless american citizens and employers both. Citizens end up applying for jobs they are not going to get and HR wastes time on resources over candidates they are not going to hire.
A better solution would be to hand a greencard to any immigrant who has worked for 5 years and has earned a certain high salary as proven by the W2.
This whole circus can be gotten rid off if you ask me.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y ago>A better solution would be to hand a greencard to any immigrant who has worked for 5 years and has earned a certain high salary as proven by the W2. Huge non-sequitur. Why is this better? Better for whom?
- gboss 1y agoBetter for everyone because the talented H1B employee is no longer shackled to their employer and can leave demanding a higher wage and raising wages for everyone.
- georgemcbay 1y agoWell you just answered why they don't/won't do this. The H1B employees being shackled and thus having little to no leverage to demand higher compensation or better working conditions is (from the point of view of the companies abusing the system) a feature of the system, not a bug.
- odo1242 1y agoWell, which is exactly why we should do this
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y ago> can leave demanding a higher wage and raising wages for everyone. This is simply not believable. More competition for a limited resource (jobs) means lower wages, not higher wages.
- gboss 1y agoI guess you’re proposing eliminating the h1b program to raise wages. That would maybe work but our companies would theoretically be less competitive globally. If we’re going to allow immigration based on professional skills then these people should be fast tracked to having the same employment rights as natives otherwise it creates a subclass of workers that depress wages because those that belong to that group will be too risk adverse to ask for more money knowing that they’ll likely have to leave the country if they get let go.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agoYes, eliminate H1B. >otherwise it creates a subclass of workers that depress wages Again, we can just skip the middle-man here and fix wages by ending H1B.
- sunshowers 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy