So what are these industries doing? Hiring cheaper labor? Are H1 B visas being used as a conduit for cheap labor? It sure looks that way. Between 1990 and 1995. computer specialist jobs increased by only 35 percent. while the number of visas requested by employers increased by 352 percent! These companies are more interested in hiring foreign workers than our American workers. In response to these concerns. the bipartisan bill reported out of committee on May 20. 1998 contained worker protection clauses designed to prevent foreign workers from being hired over American workers because they are cheaper labor. The clause simply required employers petitioning for H1B foreign workers to show a good faith effort to recruit Americans first. This simple requirement was read as too burdensome to the industry. They argued that it would cause "too much red tape" impeding their ability to hire workers. Well I say to those companies. what about the hardship faced by 142.000 laid off technology workers? I am appalled that this simple attestation clause has been whittled down to nothing in the current form of H.R. 3736. This attestation clause is now expected to reach only 5 percent of H1B employers. While the jobshops will be required to attest that no American workers were laid off to create the position for -the foreign worker and that workers they provide on a contractual basis to another company do not replace American workers. this is not enough. Ninetyfive percent of our workers are left unprotected under this bill.
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