They offer little help to working Americans who lose their jobs in todays changing labor market. But under this bill. employers dont have to promise that they have not--and will notlay off U.S. workers as a condition of their participation in the program. Under this bill. the only time that an employer can be penalized for replacing U.S. workers with foreign workers is if the employer also violates other requirements of the H1B program. That is under the Abraham proposal. It is not bad enough for an employer to lay off U.S. workers. but then they replace them with foreign workers.