[ale] OT: H1B

Bob Toxen bob at verysecurelinux.com
Fri Dec 31 00:48:16 EST 2004


On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:00:06AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 23:38 -0500, Bob Toxen wrote:
> > If this small group of a few hundred people can come up with a half dozen
> > accounts of "I trained my H1B replacement" combined with the recent
> > posting of the definition of H1B qualification of "skills that are
> > not widely available in the US" clearly -- in my mind -- meaning that
> > there is not training of replacement necessary as well as the "higher
> > of actual or prevailing wage" clearly suggests that there are thousands,
> > if not tens of thousands of cases.

> No it doesn't.  If 12 people, out of 200, mis-understand, or don't have
> full visibility of the situation, it in no way stands as data that can
> be relied on to produce a figure of "thousands".   OK, so maybe there
> are one or two valid cases somewhere, that can be proved before a court.
> Suppose those plaintiffs dropped the ball on following through like you
> said you did with the US Attorney, doesn't this become "crying over
> spilled milk"?  At some point people just need to get over things.
So you're saying that anyone who disagrees with your point of view
misunderstands or doesn't have full visibility of the situation?

So be it.  I'm one of those twelve as I trained my replacement who then
was brought from Romania to the U.S. as an H1B.  Mine technically was not
a violation of H1B regs w.r.t. firing me as I was a 1099 contractor but still
I strongly suspect that he was not paid prevailing wages.

> -Jim P.
Bob



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