are they being exploited? Know a lot of people on H1Bs in the US and don't think any of them would say that
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A very good, free-to-read, article by Norman Matloff (an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis) titled:
"How the H-1B System Undercuts American Workers"
Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with the compactmag, but I fished it out of a conservative subreddit and at a quick scan it seems to have a conservative tilt. Just as an FYI.
"How the H-1B System Undercuts American Workers"
Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with the compactmag, but I fished it out of a conservative subreddit and at a quick scan it seems to have a conservative tilt. Just as an FYI.
fair - speaking as an outsider and the houses / holidays and not what goes on behind the scenes. Thanks for the youtube - skimmed it over but a pretty solid watch that
A US H1B visa is tied to the employer that filed the petition, whilst you can change job for that employeryou cannot move to a different employer without making a new application
It's also illegal, when you go thru immigration on a H1B visa they give you a leaflet outlining your rights to fair pay etc and who to contact if you are think you are being exploited
But you do not need to win the lottery again to be able to change the employee, correct? It is more an administrative procedure rather than the nightmare process to get H1B in the first place.
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Not entirely true. You can work for a different employer while remaining in status as long as the new employer has filed for you. You also have about 2 months to find something else if you were to lose the job of the original petitioner.
Indeed and as long as you don't travel
Not entirely sure but I'm fairly sure the same restrictions are in place
Congress sanctions the ICC and Karim Khan.
Disgraceful. The tweeter also sounds like a cnut.
Yeah, I replaced the tweeter.
"22-year-old UPenn grad, incoming MIT student dedicated to combating anti-Americanism"
Sounds like an insufferable little shit.
A solid step forward for the rules-based international order (as against the fakeness of an order based on "international law")
Cuellar is a fecking rat.
You're talking shit.
It' easy for anybody that isn't Indian / Chinese / Mexican due to the diversity lottery. For us, we are fecked
Not true. Full H1B fraud industry on low wages exists.
Woah, stop sitting on the fence. Say what you really feel.
It's not something I'm knowledgeable about outside of what I've read or seen over the years so this thread with people talking from personal experience has been great to get some actual insight rather than skewed or biased reporting. I must admit though, much of what I have read or seen has always strongly suggested that while many on these visas are well paid, sadly many are not and this thread supports that.
I expect those workers who are getting exploited are mostly too scared to say anything given that could get them deported
There are definintely some abuses going on, how widespread it is I have no idea
Woah, stop sitting on the fence. Say what you really feel.
It's not something I'm knowledgeable about outside of what I've read or seen over the years so this thread with people talking from personal experience has been great to get some actual insight rather than skewed or biased reporting. I must admit though, much of what I have read or seen has always strongly suggested that while many on these visas are well paid, sadly many are not and this thread supports that.
I have personal experience of myself, who is white British but also numerous people who are Indian which wwith hom I have worked with that were on H1B visas.
None of the people I ever worked with were underpaid, they were paid the same as their fellow workers, some of them are now permanent residents and some returned home.
I suspect, but I have no proof, that abuses that do go one are implemented generally by American companies, why do I suspect this, because American companies tend to have the worst benefit packages because they aren't mandated by law,
When I've looked at the jobs market for positions that might interest me, in the majority of cases the best benefits are usually associated with non-US owned companies, nenefits such as parental leave, bereavement leave, more than 30 days vacation per year, life insurance, disability insurance
Absolutely. Better to be exploited in the USA than earning next to feck all and living in abject poverty or constant or potential danger. That's the trouble with the disparity of the countries many of those on visas arrive from. The dream of life in the US, even one where you are exploited, is still often far more preferable to the alternative of staying put. Also, I expect many believe that by simply being in the US and often being more qualified gives them a far better chance of other jobs and improving their circumstances again over being back in their own country.