YouTube Video On Avoiding U.S. Job Applicants Angers Programmers

[LoZoccolo]

YouTube bites again. A law firm's attempt to get positive exposure for an immigration law conference by posting it on You Tube backfired when an organization that's been tough on H-1B visas and offshore outsourcing copied it and made a controversial video of its own.

In the original video, posted by the firm Cohen & Grigsby from a May 15 conference, an attorney is shown advising attendees on how to meet the minimum requirements of advertising a job to U.S. candidates so that a foreign worker can more easily be hired. The firm's conference dealt with the U.S. government's labor certification requirement for foreign workers, the first step in helping them obtain green cards. The law requires that an employer prove there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a permanent job being offered before hiring a non-citizen.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199905192

[BlooInBloo]

1. Whoever thought that publicizing that video would generate *positive* feelings....

.... should be shot or something.

[Merlot]

2. I sure it generates positive feelings with the companies

seeking to hire someone at a lower wage

[LoZoccolo]

3. This basically raises a ton of suspicion about wages.

H1-Bs are supposed to get the same wages as we do. Then why the elaborate effort to weed out every single other applicant? Why spend the money on a law firm to teach you how to do that, too?

[KAZ]

5. Then shoot Information Week. Corporate IT's mouthpiece.

They don't seem to know why we're upset.

[spindrifter]

4. Thanks! This is a total find!

I hope people will take this clip and show it to their Congress people and ask why this is being tolerated.

[LoZoccolo]

6. Something just occurred to me.

A while ago someone else active in this area claimed that outsourcing was discrimination based on national origin, which is illegal. I thought at the time that I'd like to be able to prove that, but it would be hard to make a case for it. Here we see a law firm clearly suborning such behavior.