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Re:Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Y... by maxxxxx on Thursday February 04, 2016 @02:38PM (#11036559)
I am immigrant and I like the idea too. Ted Cruz's call for a very high minimum salary for H-1Bs is also the only thing I will probably ever agree with him.
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Re:Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Y... by 1024core on Thursday February 04, 2016 @03:06PM (#11036758)
Instead of setting a high minimum salary, sort the offers by descending order of salary and give the visa to the top N.

The biggest excuse for H-1B visa is that the company can't find qualified workers. Pay enough, and you will find someone qualified sooner or later.

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Re:Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Y... by serge2k on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:16PM (#11037285)
Thus ensuring that Silicon Valley gets to eat up all the H-1Bs.
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Re:Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Y... by yebyen on Thursday February 04, 2016 @04:41PM (#11037478)
Not if SV has qualified locals that will work for less than the H1-B bid amount? Why would they pay above market rate?

(Maybe I have absolutely no idea what salaries are like in SV, I'll grant you that... Western/Rochester NY local.)

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Re:Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Y... by 1024core on Friday February 05, 2016 @01:23PM (#11043448)
The government should not be in the business of setting salaries.
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Re:Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Y... by mjevans on Thursday February 04, 2016 @02:52PM (#11036650)
I think that this is a special case. In this case a COMPANY is importing a worker to do a job. If they really need to import a worker they should probably be paying that worker at LEAST 150% of the MEDIAN pay for work in that field.
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Re:Britain to Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 a Y... by jandrese on Thursday February 04, 2016 @03:25PM (#11036908)
I thought it was a pretty clever way to kill off the H-1B visa program. The downside is that the end result is probably just more companies outsourcing entire departments instead.
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