Economic Research Exposes Significant Flaws In DOL H-1B Visa Rule

[tom bhayya]

13 hours ago, ring_master said:

Ninna DHS secretary interview choosa about operation OPT and their stance on Americans first for jobs ... veelu l8 teeskoru ee case ni pretty sure they will go strong on making a case 

Lol h4 ead lo chesam Entha serous po, also election ki 1 month mundhu implement cheyadam chusthey valla commitment ardham avuthundhi 

[ring_master]

Just now, tom bhayya said:

Lol h4 ead lo chesam Entha serous po, also election ki 1 month mundhu implement cheyadam chusthey valla commitment ardham avuthundhi 

Nenu post chesina video choodu  bhayya..

[DummyVariable]

15 minutes ago, Sucker said:

Ippudu pettina wage rule assam pothadi court la. But congress la reform aithe pakka ga vuntadi next 4 yrs la. Vunnollaki yem kaadu le kaani vachetollaki kashtam aitahdi future la. 

It will take time for courts to give judgment though.. min 6 months or more anukunna it will affect a lot of extensions. Mostly the courts will tell them to review the wages. At least some % will be increased. 

[joblessjack]

38 minutes ago, DummyVariable said:

Yeah, it looks like they are pretty serious about it. 

LOL will never see them again after elections 

[Sucker]

3 minutes ago, DummyVariable said:

It will take time for courts to give judgment though.. min 6 months or more anukunna it will affect a lot of extensions. Mostly the courts will tell them to review the wages. At least some % will be increased. 

If DOL will come up with good proofs. But thatha gadi team efforts H4 la chusaka andariki hopes. 

[DummyVariable]

1 minute ago, joblessjack said:

LOL will never see them again after elections 

Why? Will thaatha rescind his own EO?

[DummyVariable]

2 minutes ago, Sucker said:

If DOL will come up with good proofs. But thatha gadi team efforts H4 la chusaka andariki hopes. 

Proofs ante vallaku unna point ye wage levels. They are below the market level whichever way you look at it.

The two lowest permissible H-1B prevailing wage levels are significantly lower than the local median salaries surveyed for occupations. The two lowest H-1B wage levels set by DOL correspond to the 17th and 34th wage percentiles locally for an occupation. This translates into salaries that are significantly lower than local median salaries—17% to 34% lower on average for computer occupations (which are among the most common H-1B occupations). H-1B employers can reap significant savings by selecting one of the two lowest wage levels instead of the Level 3 wage (the median, or 50th-percentile, wage) or the Level 4 wage (above the median, at the 67th percentile).

Not surprisingly, three-fifths of all H-1B jobs were certified at the two lowest prevailing wage levels in 2019. In fiscal 2019, a total of 60% of H-1B positions certified by DOL had been assigned wage levels well below the local median wage for the occupation: 14% were at H-1B Level 1 (the 17th percentile) and 46% were at H-1B Level 2 (34th percentile).

Likewise, three-fifths of H-1B jobs certified for the top 30 H-1B employers were at the two lowest prevailing wage levels. Twelve percent of all certified positions for the top 30 H-1B employers were set at the Level 1 wage, and nearly half (48%) were certified at Level 2, meaning that 60% (three in five) of all H-1B jobs for the top 30 employers were certified at wages lower than the local median wages for the occupations.

The top 30 H-1B employers play an outsized role in the program. In 2019, 53,377 employers had at least one petition approved for an H-1B worker. However, the top 30 H-1B employers accounted for more than a quarter, or one in four, of all H-1B petitions approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for initial and continuing H-1B employment (105,660 of the 389,323 total). Looking at the DOL data on Labor Condition Applications, the top 30 H-1B employers received approval for 371,461 H-1B positions on LCAs, accounting for 38% of the 968,538 H-1B positions certified by DOL in fiscal 2019.

The vast majority of employers that use the program employ very few H-1B workers. In fiscal 2019, 86% of the 53,377 H-1B employers were approved by USCIS for five or fewer H-1B workers, including both new and continuing H-1B workers, while the top 30 H-1B employers were approved for an average of 3,522 H-1B workers each.

Half of the top 30 H-1B employers use an outsourcing business model. Fifteen of the companies listed in the top 30 H-1B employers have a business model based on outsourcing jobs; these companies place their H-1B hires at third-party client sites. These companies rely on the H-1B program to build and expand their business, which sometimes includes sending U.S. jobs overseas.

Major U.S. firms—not just outsourcing companies—pay low wages to their H-1B employees. Major U.S.-based technology firms that hire H-1B workers directly, rather than contract them out to third-party employers, had significant shares of their certified H-1B positions assigned as Level 1 or Level 2, the two lowest wage levels in fiscal 2019, both of which are below the local median wage:

• Amazon and Microsoft each had three-fourths or more of their H-1B positions assigned as Level 1 or Level 2.
• Walmart and Uber had roughly half of their H-1B positions assigned as Level 1 or Level 2.
• IBM had three-fifths of its H-1B positions assigned as Level 1 or Level 2.
• Qualcomm and Salesforce had two-fifths of their H-1B positions assigned as Level 1 or Level 2.
• Google had over one-half assigned as Level 2.
• Apple had one-third of its H-1B positions assigned as Level 2.

 

https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wage-levels/

[JambaKrantu]

These 2 rules are going away in a couple of weeks. No point in discussing over them. 

[tom bhayya]

26 minutes ago, ring_master said:

Nenu post chesina video choodu  bhayya..

Chudalsina pani ledhu its all scripted 

[Gentle_Boy]

Ltt