Comment by KellyCriterion
7 hours ago
> are abusing the employee sponsored green cards
As a foreigner: How does this work and what do they do?
7 hours ago
> are abusing the employee sponsored green cards
As a foreigner: How does this work and what do they do?
For one thing, if you get laid off you only have two weeks to find another job or you need to leave the country. This balance of power is lop sided so the employer can get away with abusing the employee unreported.
No, green cards actually remove that constraint. You are a permanent resident, and you’re allowed to live in the US permanently. Irrespective of employment.
The future green card is dangled in front of the employee as the carrot to get them to put up with this situation for years.
And depending on where you are in the green card process, you might have to start all over again if you change employers.
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OK,got this part - this is referring to abusing the employees.
I read the former comment like that they are abusing/missusing the "technical Greencard mechanics" to get their employees past some checks/approvals/permissions/whatever or acquire whatever "special benefits" by working around whatever rules
It's pretty simple: you work as much as we tell you or we fire you. And good luck finding another job super fast with another company willing to sponsor a visa. This is the abuse. Plus, I think the pay is also not that great compared to US counterparts.
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Which also "conveniently" means those employees can effectively never unionise.
US citizens in tech never unionized themselves, because unionization will lead to stagnation. and tech industry is the opposite of stagnation