Steps to Hire Foreign Employees
When looking to hire new employees, some firms find it not only beneficial but also necessary to hire foreign employees. Now unfortunately for the employers, to hire foreign employees they must jump through many hoops and it is timely. The first step to hiring foreign employees is to start early, it takes months to years depending on which immigration program you are applying for (Murray,Ford). Next it is important to make the necessary preparation within your company, this means deciding what roles within your company you want to fill with international employees, making plans for recruitment and retention, and creating a plan to bring employees to the US and how to keep them in the US while remaining
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In addition, the programs are made so the hiring of the foreign workers won’t adversely affect the job opportunities, wages, and working conditions of the U.S. (Hiring Foreign Workers). More importantly for the foreign workers, there are regulations in place that foreign workers must earn an average wage to all other workers thus protecting them from getting taking advantage of by an employer (Hiring Foreign Workers). Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), requires that the hiring of a foreign worker will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers (Hiring Foreign Workers). The prevailing wage rate is defined as the average wage paid to similar employed workers in a specific occupation in the area of intended employment, thus what must be paid to the foreign workers as well (Hiring Foreign Workers). Foreign Labor Programs are made simply to help the U.S. economy by having a solid workforce as well as making sure that both U.S. workers and foreign workers are treated fairly and no one gets cheated out of anything. Bringing in foreign workers isn’t possible without the employer following all of the rules and regulations set out by the government. Thus, when an employer is filling for foreign labor certification, the employer is obligated to comply with all employment related laws and regulations (Hiring Foreign Workers). Failure to comply with all of the laws may potentially result in penalties as well as legal actions
An additional 20,000 are issued to individuals with at least a master degree from an American University. There are individuals who are do not counted in the overall count and these are individuals who work in certain institution such as Universities and government research agencies. The argument that many Americans make when it comes to individuals who work visa is that they take jobs from American workers. More often H-1B visa holders take jobs that American are reluctant to take. H-1B holders often take jobs in remote areas where a need for specialist occupation is needed such as doctors. American are resultant to relocate to these areas, so foreigners often fill in to these types of situations. According to Taylor Mark companies are not allowed to pay visa holder less money than to their American counterparts holding the same job. But ever rule companies often find loopholes to save money for their companies. One gap that companies especially in the engineering sector is to hire visa holder through a third party service, paying them less than their American counterparts. This does happen but more often than not. Individuals who hold H-1B visa are contributing to our economy and filling in jobs where a need a high for the type of skills they hold (Kephart, Janice).
In addition, government programs of granting working visas to foreign highly skilled students, as well as technological investments and incentives also affect labor force supply.
Labor laws in the 20th century played a major role in the lives Mexicans and caused massive deportations as well as economic concerns with congress and Anglo-Americans in the United States. Labor laws were crucial part of the immigration waves through the 20th century and made an impact to voting patterns in the U.S. Natalia Molina discuss how, “Employers
2. No Skilled Employees- Companies that have hired immigrants with specialty skills would be forced to look for those skills from Americans very quickly to keep their companies afloat. They may have to hire several people to fill one specialty skills position, which would cut the pay rate by however many
Another way an employer would benefit is that there would be less red tape to jump through to get guest workers. Employers would have the option of providing housing and transportation for the guest worker instead of these services being required. Employers can pay guest workers a cheaper wage than what it would take to keep American workers doing the labor job. It gives the employer the opportunity to have legal workers. Requiring a guest worker to have healthcare is a benefit to the employer as well.
This is in reaction to a piece of legislation which has been introduced in the U.S. Congress in 2005 to ease the flow of skilled workers and immigrants into the United States in a more relaxed and welcoming manner for high- skilled foreign students.
Outsourcing of American jobs overseas is displacing American's in the United States. American blue-collar workers and the Middle Class American will soon be a word of the past if the US government continues outsourcing the low-skill jobs overseas.
According to US Census Bureau data, in 2009 12.5 percent or 38.5 million of the population were foreign-born people where foreign-born is defined as anyone who was not a United States citizen at birth. Over half of these immigrants entered the United States during the last 20 years. (Walters et al. October 2010) More recently, 7 million immigrants or 17 percent arrived in 2005 or later. (Walters et al. November 2011) Foreign-born people constituted 14.7 percent of the labor force in 2005, up from 5.3 percent in 1970. (Ottaviano et al. August 2006) This increase in immigration has rekindled the discussion about the effect of immigration on native-born workers. United States policy makers, economists and news outlets have been trying to
An influx of labor abroad increases the domestic workforce in the foreign country, allowing the economy in both countries to expand. Given a certain level of demand for labor, increased supply intensifies competition for jobs and exerts downward pressure on earnings. Foreign labor has been a topic of reason due to the loss of jobs in the US, working conditions, and the effect it has on the foreign countries.
In addition, Mexican Americans were excluded and included in a legal method called “guestworker programs” Cindy Hahamovitch author of Creating Perfect Immigrants: Guestworkers of the World in Historical Perspective writes “What made this policy a rudimentary “guestworker” program was the state’s effort to ensure that immigrants admitted “for the duration” would leave when it was over, and that they would remain bound to a particular employer while still in the U.S.” ( Hahamovitch 80). Mexican-americans were only included when they were needed. Even then Mexican-Americans were excluded, in forms of receiving lower pay and working dirtier labor. Guest-worker programs can be held accountable for the inclusion and exclusion of
be issued a temporary worker card that will allow them to travel back and forth
China is one of our biggest labor competitors. The reason many US companies go to China for outsourcing is again, because of their workforce’s willingness to operate at low costs. Michael Zimmerman describes this as a disparity in worker “tolerance”. Where the low wages found in China are “far lower than U.S.
These immigrates do not have any problems with there wages because they made little or less in their home country. In the past decade, “American jobs screamed out of the United States at an ever-accelerating rate of speed,” says Wooldridge, “While American workers stood in unemployment lines, major corporations insourced, outsourced and offshored jobs to Third World countries. Why? They could obtain labor for $1.00 an hour and sometimes less. Capitalism knows no loyalty to man, beast or country.” One example of a corporation exercising this scheme is Bank of America. This company cut 5,000 jobs, and sent 1,250 of them to India. The company has also announced that they would cut 12,000 in the next two years or so. General Electric has also sent jobs to India. The company has sent about 12,000 jobs to India.
At the end of 2012 the National Unemployment Rate was 7.8% (“Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey”) and employers were struck with the daunting task of filling 3.6 million job openings (Smith.) In an article for Forbes on the subject of the daunting prospect of the job search, Jacquelyn Smith shares this startling fact: “The average number of people who apply for any given job: 118.” With the downturn in the economy in recent years, candidates for any given job can include inexperienced job seekers, seasoned competitive candidates, and even those who are looking to start their second or third career. The job market is flooded. Employers are overwhelmed by the sheer number of applicants, sometimes willing to compromise
Migration in every country leads to a change in the labour market. Countries like UK grant immigration rights to the large numbers of immigrants every year and openly allow immigrations from citizens of their former colonies. The attitudes of a country towards immigration vary greatly on the particular employment patterns and needs at that given time, and these attitudes may change over time. This paper will assess the changes in the labour market of the UK due to the immigrations and its impact on the human resource management in