So this is kind of true but Ive hired a few H1b employees before and here is some context.
It's a little hard to under pay. The labor board assigns minimum salaries to certain positions that you must meet. I actually had to give a guy a raise to keep him on staff because the labor board said he wasn't paid enough for his position. (he wasn't out of pay range for the team, but maybe we were just cheap assholes)
What really sucked the most in my opinion was if they got let go or fired they had something like 48 hours to get out of the country if they couldn't find another sponsored position.
Imagine a guy with a wife and two kids, both in school, and pretty well established in the community then forced to uproot in 2 days. Seems kind of crazy. That part felt slave-like to me. They were so worried about the repercussions of losing their job, they never said no and worked their asses off.
That being said, all my sponsored employees eventually got residency status and stuck around because it wasn't a bad place to work.
PS I am aware of the consulting companies who act as middle men and exploit H1b contract labor. We hired our workers directly.
So this is kind of true but Ive hired a few H1b employees before and here is some context.
It's a little hard to under pay. The labor board assigns minimum salaries to certain positions that you must meet. I actually had to give a guy a raise to keep him on staff because the labor board said he wasn't paid enough for his position. (he wasn't out of pay range for the team, but maybe we were just cheap assholes)
What really sucked the most in my opinion was if they got let go or fired they had something like 48 hours to get out of the country if they couldn't find another sponsored position.
Imagine a guy with a wife and two kids, both in school, and pretty well established in the community then forced to uproot in 2 days. Seems kind of crazy. That part felt slave-like to me. They were so worried about the repercussions of losing their job, they never said no and worked their asses off.
That being said, all my sponsored employees eventually got residency status and stuck around because it wasn't a bad place to work.
PS I am aware of the consulting companies who act as middle men and exploit H1b contract labor. We hired our workers directly.