How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System (nytimes.com)

New submitter shakah writes: The NY Times has a straightforward summary of how the H-1B Visa system is being gamed by companies inside and outside of the United States. Particularly interesting for me was their clarification on the argument that "VISA holders have to make prevailing wages, so they won't depress wages." Quoting: "Under federal rules, employers like TCS, Infosys and Wipro that have large numbers of H-1B workers in the United States are required to declare that they will not displace American workers. But the companies are exempt from that requirement if the H-1B workers are paid at least $60,000 a year. H-1B workers at outsourcing firms often receive wages at or slightly above $60,000, below what skilled American technology professionals tend to earn, so those firms can offer services to American companies at a lower cost, undercutting American workers."

Comments

'gaming'?

[roman_mir]

The entire idea is ludicrous, government shouldn't be involved in any business, labour, wage, money, price regulations at all. There shouldn't be any government involvement in business and money is my position. As to 'gaming' the system, it is clear that the system is unsustainable and it will be routed around. It's like the Internet, business treats these laws as damage and routes around them.

By the way, it is trivial to get around idiotic price controls, it just it costs some set up money. Example: pay the wage whatever the government requires, then return the money in some form of a service or product or fund purchase, whatever it takes.