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Tesla replaced laid off US workers with foreign workers using H-1B visas that Musk wants to increase (electrek.co)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by thelucky8@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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Tesla has replaced some of its US employees who were let go as part of a big wave of layoffs earlier this year with foreign workers using H-1B visas, which CEO Elon Musk is now campaigning to increase.

Over the last week, Elon Musk has been promoting the increase of H-1B visas, which are used to bring foreign workers into the US for “specialty occupations.”

Qualified foreign workers need to be sponsored by a company to get the visa, which lasts three years, extendable to six years, after which the holder needs to reapply.

The visa holder must maintain employment at the visa sponsor to retain the work visa. The worker would have to leave the country if the employment ends for whatever reason. This has led to some criticism as it gives tremendous power to the employer and can lead to a modern version of indentured servitude.

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[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Item 2 is your error, the foreign person would be here on a work visa so not an illegal immigrant. So person A is without a job while their company gets to pay someone less for doing the same work.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think I misread "increase" as "decrease" because the conversion for the past few weeks has been on how Republicans want to get rid of H1B workers. Now they've totally 180'd?

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Prez Musk did, so it’s slowly starting to spread down the incoming administration. The MAGA underlings still seem to think they have any say and are raging against it though