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I don't get it. Why is it so hard to prove that employers violate the law if it seems that the violation is so widespread? One successful lawsuit and the whole work visa system is on the brink of extinction.
Hmmmm...a far cry from the 110K of Microsoft at 76K. And lower then the average for this sort of work.
so why the difference? Heres why-the 110K number from Microsoft is for the best of the best-people that actually average more then 110K for this sort of thing. Where does Microsoft get their outsource talent in general? why.....Infosys. In fact They just signed a 100 million dollar contract with Microsoft to provide outsourced employees.
Woah. Infosys filed 32 THOUSAND visa applications in 2013? That's almost half of the annual quota for this sort of visa!
To be honest, I know nothing about this company. The foreign IT workers I know working in the US work for the likes of Microsoft and Facebook, which is why I looked them up. Infosys is in a class of its own. I'm speechless.
Correction: LCA's do not mean the same thing as visa applications, since they include renewals and transfers. But still, 32,000 is a lot.
I did a bit more research on this company's LCA records and found that the majority of their H-1B workers are computer systems analysts, and computer systems analysts get paid significantly less than software engineers. According to this website: Computer Systems Analysts : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer systems analysts' median salary in 2012 is about 80k, about on par with the average salary of about 75k for Infosys's LCA's in 2012.
75K compared to 80K. Think about that. importing in folks that are 6% cheaper, and who are highly unlikely to leave.
Thats pushing down wages.
Even better....most are being hired as that...and doing something else....ie the job title, and what they actually do are different. So...yeah thats a significant underpay even if we assume they are doing the job description....alll 32,000 of them as you point out...
You know somethings wrong here. The surprise from the stats you found are telling you that.
H-1B workers are supposed to be hired for jobs that could not otherwise be filled. This is using them to increase corporate profits and nothing else! Where are the regulators????
Singapore, one of the leading high tech economies of the world per capita, makes it extremely difficult to hire foreign workers over a Singaporean. Why can't the US do the same?
I just answered that question, in the post immediately prior to yours.
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Originally Posted by greywar
Thats pushing down wages.
That's critical. It isn't just that they get paid less, but the fact that they get paid less drags down the wages that they get paid less than. However, I'm not quite as concerned about that (even though it adversely affects me) as much as how it undercuts the incentive to business to pressure government to upgrade the skills of the Americans they would have to employ if they couldn't hire H-1Bs.
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