Sean Breheny wrote:
> I do have a question, though: presumably the motivation for hiring
> foreign technical workers is because they will work for a lower
> salary. However, the video seems to indicate that the company is
> allowed to disqualify an American worker if he or she wants a higher
> salary than is being offered. There is no legal salary restriction
> except minimum wage, right? (which applies equally to foreign workers)
> If so, why can't companies simply offer so low a salary that only
> foreign workers would take it? Such a practice would be the normal
> "free market" approach. In that case, either US salaries will adjust
> down and the U.S. based tech workers will take the jobs at lower
> salaries OR there will not be enough H1B slots to fill the required
> job positions and the salaries will settle at a level inbetween the
> two extremes (that which it would be at if there were no visas, and
> that which it would be at if visas were unrestricted)

The answer is simple: the current immigration law REQUIRES a company to 
demonstrate that its attempts to recruit a qualified or interested US worker 
have failed, and to pay at least the prevailing wage.

Vitaliy 

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