After letting go of contractors, why weren't H1Bs targeted? Do they not the cost company money with sponsorship? Genuine curiosity, not trying to be a jerk about it. I don't know how that all works.
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My colleague who is on h1b got laid off on Monday morning. I see no partiality or a particular criteria.
GM had a freeze on H1B hire during the recent NAFTA (now USMCA) negotiation. They are telling candidates flat out that they won't sponsor H1B and will barely even consider TN visa. I'm sure now that the firestorm is over, maybe they will look at sponsorship again. Truth is, who wants to risk their career at GM after this debacle?!?
A lot of h1b have advanced degrees. They are more to maintain because the lawyer and visa fees. However, the company can write off those fees on their taxes. The wait out of some countries is 20 years for a green card. The government likes h1b’s because they are taxed at the highest rate too. It’s also a lot harder for h1b to shift the job. And some companies don’t deal with the paper work and refuse to hire. And if you don’t find a job within x time. The company who had you here on h1b is supposed to send you home. ie they pay for your ticket. That’s the way it’s set up. But few follow through on that last bit.
If Trump made minium salary for H1B to be $96k the problem would be solved
The reason companies hire H1B1's is not because of a lower salary, although this is probably the case in many instances...it's more because they can't job-hop around laterally once hired. They are sponsored and indebted to a particular company for x number of years while they wait for processing. Therefore, the sponsoring company has more "power" or leverage over them.....ask them to work more casual overtime, take on more work, etc....the answer is usually yes from the H1B1 because they are hoping for a permanent position. It's a indentured servant type of situation, where the company becomes all powerful to the H1B1. Everyone with an engineering degree has "special skills"....don't buy anything of that junk written here by other H1B1's....getting your BSME, BSEE, etc. along with your MSME, MSEE automatically provides you with "special higher skills" as some of these H1B1 posters think only they possess, which is propaganda fed to them by their contract house or coyotes which bring them here to make them think they are special when they are 1 in 1,000,000.
What the hell does an H1B1 question have to do with being racist, racist?
My canadian coworker with h1 visa survived. I am genuinely happy for him as he was really worried about maintaining his status here if he were to let go.
My friends is a h1 b hire from Gm from IBM because he was specially skilled. And was offered a high pay. But was Layed off. If Taht makes anyone happy here !!! Can we just for once not be racist and treat people for people !
We have 33k it workers
We hired 800 h1bs in six years, the info is public, half of them were not in it, you can look it up (someone had a link here last week)
H1bs are a big problem, but not at GM... if you were to work at GM you would know the skills level a typical h1b has at gm, its not your average semiretarded Wipro tester
Go troll Disney, IBM, Accenture and Verizon and other b--ch companies that sell the American worker to the lowest bidder
Most cheaper h1b employees come from contract houses. Direct H1B hires are more expensive than equivalent domestic workers, and have to be pretty highly skilled to warrant the extra cost to begin with. Direct H1B hires are usually interns that GM really liked (student visa works for internships) or people hired away from competitors.
Tl;dr: they were valuable enough to pay a premium for at hire, they're probably still valuable enough to try and keep.
H1B costs the company less. That is the whole point of the exercise.
See the below about legal risks. tl;dr you can’t get rid of everyone with an -H1B without getting sued for discrimination. HR is likely not using visa status as a factor to avoid litigation.
In addition, there are risks of being sued under state contract law if, for example, offer letters and other writings constitute an implied contract. There are risks of discrimination claims if H-1B employees are not treated as other similar employees in such situations. Employers need to be mindful of the special requirements affecting H-1B workers to avoid additional liability, and are advised to consult with legal counsel on issues involving H-1B workers.
GM IT is eventually going to turn to more H1B because they are cheaper. Everyone else will slowly get let go.
Amen brother!