Monday, May 28, 2007

Permanent Underclass

"Why [Do] Tech Employers Hate Congress' New Immigration Reform Bill?"


Because they love hiring engineers, doctors, and lawyers for $30K a year. This has been another edition of easy answers to easy questions.

Why Tech Employers Hate Congress' New Immigration Reform Bill - Yahoo! News
"The other big complaint is over more restrictions. Under current law, only companies that have more than 15% of their workforce on H-1B visas--called 'H-1B dependent' companies--are held to certain tougher rules. This bill would apply them to all H-1B employers.

Those rules include H-1B employers attesting that no U.S. worker was displaced from a particular job six months before or after an H-1B worker was hired for that role."

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