Laid Off, Now What?

Re:Laid Off, Now What? by calvinmorrison on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:17PM (#24535967)

Isn't a H1B visa literally for a single job that's not able to be filled? It's not a work permit for working any specialist job, companies need to justify the need specifically

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:36PM (#24536173)

Can we stop pretending that's true? Like there are really jobs that are sooooo unique that NO Americans have the skills and only some foreign worker unicorns can fulfill them?

H1Bs are just skilled worker visas, let's stop with the charade that they're anything else.

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by bgorman on Sunday September 20, 2020 @03:27PM (#24536647)

If you want to stop that charade, you need to admit that H1Bs are frequently abused and are used to depress the salaries of American workers.

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:41PM (#24537234)

> If you want to stop that charade, you need to admit that H1Bs are frequently abused and are used to depress the salaries of American workers.

100% agree, which is why I'm saying they shouldn't be tied to a single employer, which just helps employers in general acquire a more compliant, docile work force.

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by foobiekr on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:04PM (#24538802)

I agree with this, but the best way to fix that is to remove some of the restrictions on the H1b workers so that they are not as easy to exploit.

I also favor dutch auction allocation.

That, and ban all of the body shops using them.

BTW, I have worked somewhere where H1b was knowingly abused and used to reduce the average wage.

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by kinkrtyavimoodh on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:02PM (#24536921)

There is a wide gap between the two extremes of "H1B is merely abuse" and "H1B is only for Nobel prize type savants".

Do you know there is no general work visa at all in America, whereby a skilled person can come based on their merit and work in the US?

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by dragonwriter on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:27PM (#24538912)

> Do you know there is no general work visa at all in America, whereby a skilled person can come based on their merit and work in the US?

There are a whole lot of (both immigrant and non-immigrant) work-related skill-based visas in the US immigration system. It's true there is no one generic such visa, but that's because the US immigration systems doesn't use a small number of broad visa types but a large number of hyperspecific ones.

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by pandaman on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:25PM (#24538902)

You are correct that there is no geneneral non-immigrant work visa but there are general skilled immigrant visas (EB1A and EB2-NIW).

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by wombatmobile on Sunday September 20, 2020 @02:40PM (#24536206)

The point is that if that particular job disappears, the visa holder, a human being, often with family, is put in a difficult circumstance which requires adjustment.

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