Q. "B-b-but there's a shortage of skilled workers!"
A. Good, let supply-demand make you pay what you should be paying for it. Let our colleges give meaningful education to people they're putting in debt for jobs they can actually get later on.
Our economy is bleeding to death while corporations rack in record profits because of outsourcing.
Few simple rules that would help a lot.
* Want an H1B? Pay them in the top 10th percentile of similar domestic professionals' wages. * Want an H1B? Great, but once you sponsor it, they're free to work for anyone in the U.S. * Want an H1B? Great, but you'll be limited to no more than 5% of your total employees. * That 5% limit includes overseas offices and "international" owned ventures.
If a company is domestic, they should stay domestic. If it's international, they have no need for H1Bs.
I'm writing this as a disgruntled software engineer turned into a business owner.
People getting away with crap like this is infuriating.