Once again the IT & Engineering fields get the shaft; H1-Visa

[oviedodem]

the stupid senators will allow for companies to temporarily hire workers on H1-B Visas for "specialized" skills. I work in IT and know so many people who have lost their jobs to outsourcing and H1 Visas in the last 5 years. Instead of focusing on training for AMERICAN workers in these "specialized" areas we will once again go the cheap way and go abroad.

Most of the people I know are more than willing to go back to school if they had the money or their companies would pay for it. It would have been better to extend credits to companies who send workers for training in these "specialized" areas.

Once again Americans get the shaft; I HATE LAWMAKERS!!

[jody]

1. I'm with you. IMO job reductions in IT & Engineering fields will quietly be outsourced when the

economy recovers as it will with or without the recovery funds wasted by congress.

[Fleshdancer]

2. Is there a way to figure out what the "specialized" areas are?

:shrug:

[rufus dog]

3. I don't know about engineering jobs

But the IT jobs that are outsourced involve workers receiving on the job training. They surely don't have the skills of the workers who they replaced.

[DCBob]

4. Unemployed US IT workers should retrain to work as waiters and busboys.

That's where the jobs are now in this country.

[KakistocracyHater]

5. just think where the jobs go also goes spending

consumers who have jobs spend it locally, plus on little things like vacations, plus payroll taxes. Is American civilization too big to fail, or is it only Microsoft & other co.s?

[high density]

6. Commerce Nominee Favors H1-B Visa Expansion

Sen. Gregg Judd would bring a record to the Department of Commerce that unabashedly endorses an expansion of H1-B workers for the technology industry. That support, though, doesn't necessarily mean either the U.S. House or Senate will move to expand the H1-B visa cap.

In Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), President Barack Obama's new nominee to run the Department of Commerce, the tech industry has found their man when it comes to expanding the H1-B visa program. The 61-year-old senator is an unabashed fan of the program.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Commerce-Nominee-Favors-H1B-Visa-Expansion

Senate bill would bar H-1B hiring at firms receiving bailout money

Financial services firms that receive federal bailout money will be prohibited from hiring H-1B workers if legislation introduced last night in the U.S. Senate wins adoption.

The bill would bar any recipient of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), the program being used by the government to purchase some $700 billion of bad mortgage assets, from hiring anyone on an H-1B visa. U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced the proposal as an amendment to the massive, $800 billion-plus federal stimulus bill, which is separate from the previously approved bank rescue funds.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9127439&intsrc=hm_list