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In reply to the discussion: Biden to Let Trump's H1-B Visa Ban Expire in Win for Tech [View all]Lithos
(26,403 posts)Specifically as a salary cap. The posted salaries they are claiming which can not be filled are typically 25-30% below market rate (ie, asking $80k for a Sr. role which nominally is $110-120k/yr), so they opt to bring in an H1B instead. There is zero attempt made to apprentice or provide any opportunity for someone else to move into this role. It's made worse when supervisor/managerial slots are also filled using H1Bs who then almost always bring in their other H1Bs.
I have also seen Contracting houses (TCS, etc) be brought in as part of an "out source" in order to layoff US workers. The on-prem staff of these contracting houses are also almost all H1B workers meaning H1B's have via fiat, replaced US workers. Many of the H1Bs are brought in with promises of a green card, but treated as virtual wage slaves during the multi-year process; slaves because the green card clock restarts if they leave the contracting house.
The process is wholly corrupt.