If you want to hire an H1B and claim there is no American to do that job, what about the 30k employees you just laid off? None of them can do the software engineering, sales, HR, etc. that a company like Oracle works on 99% of the time? It's quite schizophrenic for basic engineering companies like Oracle, Cisco, eBay, Paypal, etc. to claim there are no Americans to do the software engineering they require after they lay off thousands and there are millions of American software engineers looking for work.

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marcher 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Schizophrenic?

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dominotw 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

lots ppl are confused in this comment section. h1b doesnt not require looking for a local first.

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prerok 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Sorry what? Yes, they do. Second-hand knowledge, though.

	▲	sunnyps 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, the requirement is that the job is for a speciality occupation and that the H1B be paid the prevailing wage for that job, not that there was an attempt to hire locally first. For an I-140 PERM (employment based green card) however the requirement is that there was an effort made to hire locally first. Most people on HN are uninformed about this, well actually uninformed in general.

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motbus3 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Read this guy comment before taking it to this level

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pj_mukh

	▲	nobodyandproud 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		He’s a shill.