Certain employer-sponsored visas have requirements that the job be posted for a period of time to see if any US applicants apply. This is supposed to make sure the foreign worker isn't "taking a job away" from a similarly qualified American.
Companies do prefer to hire foreign nationals for these jobs, though, because they typically take less pay, and their US work authorization is tied to their employment, so that makes it much harder for them to change jobs in the US without leaving the country first. So while they are supposed to "post the job" for Americans to apply, they will do the bare minimum to post it, and make sure the requirements are written so that no one other than a foreign worker would bother applying.
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very_well_lost@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 28d
I'm sorry, 3.2 million? That's less than 1/10th of a percent of their reported operating revenue...
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 28d
Still infinitely more than their reported profits though
notfromhere@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 28d
Cost of doing business
db2@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 28d
Protection money.
Armand1@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 28d
Why is it supposedly illegal to do this? Being American is not a protected characteristic, no?
dhork@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 28d
Certain employer-sponsored visas have requirements that the job be posted for a period of time to see if any US applicants apply. This is supposed to make sure the foreign worker isn't "taking a job away" from a similarly qualified American.
Companies do prefer to hire foreign nationals for these jobs, though, because they typically take less pay, and their US work authorization is tied to their employment, so that makes it much harder for them to change jobs in the US without leaving the country first. So while they are supposed to "post the job" for Americans to apply, they will do the bare minimum to post it, and make sure the requirements are written so that no one other than a foreign worker would bother applying.
Armand1@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d
Thanks. That's very helpful.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · -1 pts · 28d
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