H-1B Visa Holders Scramble for Jobs After 2022 Tech Layoffs

Re:H-1B Visa Holders Scramble for Jobs After 2022 Tech Layoffs by 22SAS on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:34PM (#33699071)

That and many a time the companies do the job postings on things like local newspapers, which no one reads. This way, the companies get to prove that they posted the job someplace, but no one responded to it. USCIS and the DOL don't care either, as everyone gets to show "see, we are following protocol".

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Re:H-1B Visa Holders Scramble for Jobs After 2022 Tech Layoffs by ralph84 on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:19PM (#33699584)

Or late night radio ads asking people to snail mail a resume with a specific job reference code. The chances that someone qualified for the job both hears the ad and is in a position to write down an address and reference code are basically nil.

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Re:H-1B Visa Holders Scramble for Jobs After 2022 Tech Layoffs by 22SAS on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:26PM (#33699654)

That is incredibly funny.

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Re:H-1B Visa Holders Scramble for Jobs After 2022 Tech Layoffs by JamesianP on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:17PM (#33700582)

Probably goes under the category of "bad faith effort" which should lose in court.

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Re:H-1B Visa Holders Scramble for Jobs After 2022 Tech Layoffs by theGnuMe on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:50PM (#33700775)

Notices are required to be posted in office breakrooms. Now that we have a lot of remote first or remote only companies... how does one see those notices? :)

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Re:H-1B Visa Holders Scramble for Jobs After 2022 Tech Layoffs by Ao7bei3s on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:23PM (#33708282)

Because of this exact problem, our company paused immigration for half a year in 2020. Our law firms were concerned that posting notices in an empty office could be considered in bad faith.

Nowadays, it is seen as acceptable to post it virtually, let's say on an HR page on SharePoint, in addition to the physical notice in whatever office there may be. For certain areas we also considered mailing a notice to all employees in the area, but I don't know if that ever happened. The idea is that the physical notice covers the letter of the law, and the electronic notice covers the spirit.

I don't know if DoL has issued any guidance since then, but at the time there wasn't any.

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Re:H-1B Visa Holders Scramble for Jobs After 2022 Tech Layoffs by theGnuMe on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:52PM (#33708628)

Yeah it is worth pursuing. Other tricks companies play is posting notices in different breakrooms organized by job function.

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