Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program

Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by anpk on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:16PM (#10541154)

I agree its based on illegal practices. But quite a few of the businesses (not all obviously) do it for survival because that is the only way for them to stay in business.

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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by x0x0 on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:43PM (#10541849)

No, not in the slightest. Take strawberries: an additional 5 cents per pint would increase picker wages by 50% [1]. Businesses minimize worker pay both because they can, and because there is a collective action problem that needs to be solved by the government. Wages for fast-food employees are similar. viz the raise in minimum wages in Seattle which, contra all predictions from conservatives, has not driven restaurants out of business. See eg study suggesting a minimum wage of $15 for fast food workers would increase customer prices by 4.3% [2].

[1] http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=res_white&b_n...

[2] https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q3/study-raisi...

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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by toomuchtodo on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @10:54PM (#10551209)

Your business is not a business if it's survival depends on treating workers as slave labor.

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Re:Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program by UK-AL on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @06:47PM (#10543589)

Then they should go out of business?

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