IT Worker Has to Train Foreign H-1B Replacement

While Silicon Valley executives push for increases in H-1B visas claiming shortages of skilled American workers, the reality is much different.  As a general rule, H-1B visas have two uses for businesses: obtain cheaper foreign workers at the expense of American workers, and, even more devastating to U.S. employment, the H-1B visa holder is often here to facilitate the outsourcing of the company’s operations (and jobs) overseas – most commonly to India.

Computerworld recently told the all-to-common story of an IT (information technology) worker at a company where about 220 American jobs have been lost to offshore outsourcing over the last year. Yet the company obtained H-1B workers –  a visa category supposedly for workers in short supply.  Offshore outsourcing firms are the largest users of H-1B visas. The American IT worker had the job of working with the on-site H-1B visa-holder in training via web video-conferencing the workers in India who were going to be taking his job and those of his American co-workers.

Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248996/This_IT_worker_had_to_train_an_H_1B_replacement

Posted by Lewis Hubbard 6/16/14

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