Summary
Tesla replaced many laid-off U.S. workers with foreign H-1B visa holders after a 2024 wave of layoffs affecting 15,000 employees.
These visas, tied to employer sponsorship, often lower compensation and give employers significant leverage over workers.
Critics argue this displaces U.S. employees, as senior engineers were replaced by lower-paid junior engineers.
CEO Elon Musk, while advocating for expanding H-1B visa caps, faces backlash, especially from conservatives, for “job-stealing” concerns.
Musk contends there’s a U.S. skill shortage, but critics highlight potential exploitation tied to Tesla’s demanding work culture and visa dependence.
Isn’t this supposed to be illegal? Used to be before you could hire someone on such a visa you had to prove that there was no US employee/candidate who can do that job role. Did that change? Or we’re just letting this guy openly break the law on a massive scale?
Rich people are above the law. It just doesn’t count. They make laws that have loopholes and hundreds of lawyers to make sure nothing comes of it.
Are you sick? Me too. Will we ever do something? Probably not.
Employing undocumented immigrants is supposed to be illegal too but there they were at Mar-a-largo.
List jobs for pay so low no one will take it, or make standards impossible to meet, i.e. you need 5 years experience of this program that has only existed for 3. See no one in US qualifies gotta go overseas
We put out a job listing, had thousands of applicants, didn’t hire any of them, and then concluded no one in America wanted the position!
That is definitely a rule that
Additionally, when filing PERM, employers are required to prioritize domestic workers for 6 months after layoffs for the same role. Reference
But this guy is notorious for finding loopholes and sucking off any dick/teet to skirt the law so here we are.
This is not unique to Tesla either. With the job market tightening over the last 2-3 years, tech companies have been laying off experienced, higher paid workers (especially who were hired at highly competitive salaries during early pandemic) to replace them with new lower paid ones for the same role.
The article misrepresents this as a domestic vs foreign workers issue instead of calling out the employer for lying about role responsibilities and exploiting junior employees for doing the same work as was expected from senior employees in the past.
I love how they want to make America great again by yet again undercutting us. Then on top of that using foreign labor as a means to strong arm those (and really any) employees even more.
What. 👏 An. 👏 Ass. 👏 Hole. 👏 Fuck you Musk.
The system was built to be abused, and it’s serving its purpose. It’s been like this for decades.
Employers list the job at such low pay that nobody in the US applies.
So what? He has presidential immunity.