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"The abuse of the system is real, and media reports are validating what we have argued against for years, including the fact that Americans are training their replacements."
(Grassley-Durbin Bill press statement, Nov 11)
There has been much ado about the H1-B and L1 visa programs for foreign workers, with some in favor, and some against. What is pretty clear though, is that abuses do happen.
Now Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) have introduced legislation to try and curb some of these abuses. Among other things, their bill proposes to prohibit companies with more than 50 employees of hiring H1-B employees if the company already employs more than 50 percent of H1-B and L1 visa holders, and to establish a wage floor for L1 workers.
Working conditions of similarly employed American workers may not be adversely affected by the hiring of the H-1B worker, including H-1B workers who have been placed by another employer at the American worker's worksite. In addition, it explicitly prohibits the replacement of American workers by H-1B or L-1 visa holders.
Full text of the bill here (pdf), supporting statement by IEEE USA here.
Given election times and all, what chance do you think this bill has to make it into legislation?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 25 2015, @11:12PM
Brain drain does not always benefit us. Making other places shittier because we took all their doctors to be our nurses is not really a good idea, especially if the places we took the doctors from have say an ebola outbreak.
Ok, how much of a problem is that really? Plus, they'll send money back for their relatives.
And brain drain, regardless of how it is done, will always depress local wages in the long run. The depression may be less than if it was under current regime, but it will still happen.
Unless it results in higher employment overall. For example, suppose that the New World had been left alone. How many high tech societies would they have now? There would be some advanced spots in central America and the western coast of South America, but probably they would probably be more at the Medieval era rather than today's cutting edge. I don't see the high tech jobs in the New World without the immigration that brought in the best, brightest, and most ambitious over the past few centuries.