Legal Immigration

[ThatOwlWoman]

I wish that were true. That rule has already been implemented and it didn't take US Businesses long to discover a loophole to get around it.

What is the loophole?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

What is the loophole?

I think I explained it twice already. They hire foreign employment agencies to find qualified workers. The Agencies then hire the workers and thus they are not employees of the US Company and so the prevailing wage provision would not apply.

You have to admit that's one hell of a loophole. Purely evil. I'd be so proud of Grind if he had been the one to come up with the idea.

 

[Dirt McGirt]

I think I explained it twice already. They hire foreign employment agencies to find qualified workers. The Agencies then hire the workers and thus they are not employees of the US Company and so the prevailing wage provision would not apply.

You have to admit that's one hell of a loophole. Purely evil. I'd be so proud of Grind if he had been the one to come up with the idea.

I feel like a sucker for paying "area wages" for all those years.

 

[PoliTalker]

Hello Mott,

They already do require that. I just wanted to see if people were aware that this is a problem with the H1B Visa program and that even with a prevailing wage rule as part of the Visa process American companies were getting around that by using foreign employment agencies where the foreign workers are actually employed by the foreign employment agency and not the US Company. Since they are not employed by the US Company the US Company isn't required to pay the foreign workers the prevailing wage in that field.

Oh these darn capitalists. It's a challenge to create enough regulations to keep up with them. As soon as legislators shut down one unfair practice they find another. We constantly need more regulations, and here we have crony politicians claiming we need fewer.

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

I think I explained it twice already. They hire foreign employment agencies to find qualified workers. The Agencies then hire the workers and thus they are not employees of the US Company and so the prevailing wage provision would not apply.
You have to admit that's one hell of a loophole. Purely evil. I'd be so proud of Grind if he had been the one to come up with the idea.

Yep, that sounds about right. The H1B visa guys who replaced my husband's IT dept. ppl were through some agency. BTW, they all had to sign an agreement not to sue the company or they would not receive their severance package. That reeks of slightly or overtly illegal as well, or something that *should* be.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Yep, that sounds about right. The H1B visa guys who replaced my husband's IT dept. ppl were through some agency. BTW, they all had to sign an agreement not to sue the company or they would not receive their severance package. That reeks of slightly or overtly illegal as well, or something that *should* be.

Ask Disney how doing that worked out for them.