http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa91679.000/hfa91679_0.htm#107
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H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Pay Foreign Workers Extremely Low Wages
The first problem in the system is that the employer determines the prevailing wage and the employer can use nearly any source for that determination. Prior to 2005, employers used this combined with the restrictions on enforcement to pay H-1B workers low wages. However, in 2004 Congress explicitly changed the law to allow employers to pay H-1B workers absurdly low wages.
Pettifoggers will tell you that H-1B workers are required to be paid the higher of the prevailing wage or the wage paid to similar workers. And golly gee willikers, it says just that right at the top of 8 U.S.C. § 1101(n)(1). That's enough information for the willful ignorami writing the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
But scroll down to 8 U.S.C. § 1101(p)(4). There you will find that the Department of Labor is required to take an existing wage survey and divide it into four skill level prevailing wages. Notice there is no requirement that the employer pay the H-1B worker at his skill level. Even if there were such a requirement, it would be unenforceable because skill is a subjective measure.
Under this system, employers classify
52 percent of H-1B workers at the lowest skill level, where they command a wage at the 17th percentile for the occupation and location.
30 percent at the next lowest skill level, where they command a wage at the 34th percentile.
12 percent at the next skill level, where they command the median (or actual prevailing wage).
6 percent at the highest skill level, where they command a wage at the 67th percentile.
Notice that H-1B workers are "highly skilled" when industry wants more of them, but those very same workers become low-skilled when determining what they have to be paid.
Also notice that if the H-1B program excluded aliens paid less than the actual prevailing wage, the quota would not come close to being reached.
not quite, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/31/no-congressional-gop-leaders-will-support-reducing-immigration/
This is from 11 years ago...
Very sad. AT&T is making a bad move here. I started with AT&T mobility 15 years ago and it was a fun place work. Now, just about everyone with any skills is looking to get out. Very sad
Our replacement workers are Tata Consulting India employees, holders of congressionally sanctioned H–1b and L–1 work visas.
I would love to tell you that Tata, HCS and Infosys have now taken over another company and fired the americans after forcing them to train their replacements, ATT is the company