Thread regarding Baker Hughes Inc. layoffs

Yikes..I'll read more than rhetoric and Fox news before posting my rant next

Check this website out

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Baker-Hughes/59048_Salary.htm

IT jobs are going away and no you won't be able to code for 12 hrs @70k. No problems there. We need better people and let's fight it out.

Specialised oil jobs like mine...hell raise h1b bar to 180 k and I'll still make it.

So who is the boss?

No. It's going to make companies that hire H1B folks have to pay them 130k a year lol. See the scam was that companies were bringing these people here and paying them like 50-60k and you lost your job. That was the scam

Martin you're in a lot of trouble now. You'll have to either raise H1B salaries to 130k a year or just hire Americans. Hell, I'll take my H1B manager's job for half that, give me 70k. Two birds with 1 stone. You get to promote an American and save money while making America great again

Do you think Martin is going to give them raises up to 130k a year!!!!????

The latest of the three legislations cited by Swarup was introduced in the US House of Representatives which among other things calls for more than doubling the minimum salary of H-1B visa holders to $130,000.

The High-Skilled Integrity and Fairness Act of 2017 introduced by California Congressman Zoe Lofgren prioritises market-based allocation of visas to those companies willing to pay 200% of a wage calculated by survey, eliminates the category of lowest pay, and raises the salary level at which H1B dependent employer are exempt from non-displacement and recruitment attestation requirements to greater than $130,000. This is more than double of the current H1B minimum wage of $60,000 which was established in 1989 and since then has remained unchanged.

Livemint

Donald Trump has called for US companies to hire Americans as he pushes ahead with his election promise to create jobs at home. Photo: AFP

New Delhi: India on Thursday said it remained in dialogue with the Trump administration and the US Congress at senior levels on the introduction of bills that call for more than doubling the minimum salary of H-1B visa holders to $130,000—making it difficult for firms to use the programme to replace American employees with foreign workers, including from India.

Zero hedge

Of course, given their dependence on low-paid foreign workers to fill low-skilled IT positions, Indian IT firms would be expected to get hit hard by a new policy prioritizing H-1B visas for higher paying jobs...an expectation that has already taken its toll on the stocks of Infosys and Wipro

DONALD J. TRUMP POSITION ON VISAS

"Megyn Kelly asked about highly-skilled immigration. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay. I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions."

Unlikely to affect anyone with good oil salaries...with your half baked knowledge and half a-- reading dream on

It's about time. Send them home and give our jobs back to us.

When Trump is voted President heel sort this mess out once and four all.

Companies like BBI are hiring H1B because they work cheap and replace American workers. I was laid off from BHI in favor of a cheaper H1B. I hope trump cleans house

Something stinks here