If you're a CEO of a government owned corporation, it seems like it has become a good idea to go out of your way to either a) hire local workers, or b) make sure you have a paper trail to prove you really needed those contractors for a reason other than cost savings.
Or is the policy different depending on the political winds?
Two very different issues. If the policy is one way for one administration, and different for another, you're still in trouble. In fact, the policy can be one way for an administration, and then an election comes up and that administration needs some political points.
My whole argument is premised on what ought to be. I don't disagree with you on what the case may actually be.
> The executive order, Hira said, appears to provide “a way to ensure that ‘secondary employers’ — outsourcers — adhere to the H-1B attestations as though they are direct employers of the client.”
> Such a change, if enforced, should prevent abuses such as those reported at Southern California Edison and Disney, where workers allegedly had to train their own H-1B replacements, Hira said.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/03/h-1b-visa-president-t...