{"id":916918,"date":"2025-03-26T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916918"},"modified":"2025-03-26T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T02:03:12","slug":"h-1b-wage-hike-proposed-to-restrict-us-employers-from-hiring-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/26\/h-1b-wage-hike-proposed-to-restrict-us-employers-from-hiring-foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B wage hike proposed to restrict US employers from hiring foreign workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US is taking steps to ensure American employers hire local workers rather than foreign talent. A new study by the National Foundation for American Policy shows that mandating minimum wages for H-1B visa holders could threaten the ability of US employers to hire foreign-born scientists and engineers. This H-1 B wage restriction could be debated in Congressional Immigration Legislation. <\/p>\n<p>The proposal requires US employers to pay far higher than the market wage for H-1B professionals, including by mandating a standard called the \u201cmedian local wage\u201d. The proposed changes could potentially hinder employers\u2019 ability to employ highly skilled foreign nationals and potentially deter many international students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is taking steps to ensure American employers hire local workers rather than foreign talent. A new study by the National Foundation for American Policy shows that mandating minimum wages for H-1B visa holders could threaten the ability of US employers to hire foreign-born scientists and engineers. This H-1 B wage restriction could be debated in Congressional Immigration Legislation. The proposal requires US employers to pay far higher than the market wage for H-1B professionals, including by mandating a standard called the \u201cmedian local wage\u201d. The proposed changes could potentially hinder employers\u2019 ability to employ highly skilled foreign nationals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}