how to not hire an American worker

[bookwormom]

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> >Subject: Fw: How To Not Hire An American
> >
> >
> >A Pittsburgh law firm presents a seminar on how to pretend to look
for an
> >American worker, so that you can then get an HB1 visa for a foreign
worker.
> >
> >If it looks like someone's qualified, "...schedule an interview
...go
> >throught the whole process...to find legal basis to disqualify them"
(the
> >applicant).
> >
> >http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/18/22435/0365
>

[WileyCoyote]

Shoot, where we live they don't even have to go through all that. Nearby is a huge popular resort area, and about 65% of their workforce are "imported" people on visas. Why? Because they can pay them less and do not have to provide benefits, and are "training them for careers in resort services". Never mind that both the tech schools and local universities have classes for locals to do these very same jobs... we are waited on by Russians, Jamaicans, even English and Irish kids, all with legitimate work visas (at least initially).

As far as hiring illegals, that's even easier. Contractors sub-contract jobs to unnamed sub-contractors. Contractors are therefore not liable for benefits or anything else for workers. Subcontractors each do separate jobs (plumbing, landscaping, painting, framing) and are so numerous that the government doesn't even know who or where half of them are - and the illegal immigrants who are their employees get paid half what the Americans used to, don't have to follow blueprints or construction ordinances, and aren't paid any benefits whatsoever by their employees.

Because this was a rural area, the contractors claim that there are not enough people here in skilled trades to fill the jobs they have - but what is now coming out is that the houses were not built to withstand any sort of weather; siding is already (4 years later) peeling, trusses not even attached or attached with one or two nails, etc. One fellow was having trouble with his built-in sprinkler system, when he started digging it up, he found out that the sprinkler heads had been HAMMERED into the pipe - upside down. Another fellow was at work when his wife called him in a panic - their less-than-one-year-old home's garage had fallen away from the house!

The Subcontractors change their corporation names or even "declare bankruptcy" after jobs so that they can go on with the same shoddy performance under a different name - and are not held responsible.