This is one of the top stories here this morning. As someone who works in IT, I’ve seen many jobs lost this way. It also really pisses me off that Hamou and I have had to spend hundreds of dollars following USCIS guidelines to get him a green card, and these other people are willfully and blatantly abusing the system.
Law Firm’s Video a ‘Blatant Disregard for American Workers’
In the video, however, an individual identified as Lawrence Lebowitz, vice president and director of marketing for Cohen & Grigsby, explains how employers can hire foreign workers under the PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) process, which stipulates requirements for placing job ads to fill vacancies by either hiring U.S. workers or evidencing that no qualified ones are available.
“Our goal here, of course, is to meet the requirements No. 1, but also do so as inexpensively as possible … and our goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker,” explains Lebowitz to seminar attendees.
“We’re complying with the law fully, but our objective is to get this person a green card, and to get through the labor certification process, so certainly we are not going to try to find the place where the applicants are going to be the most numerous; we’re going to try to find a place where, again, we’re complying with the law and hoping and likely not to find a qualified or interested worker applicant,” continues Lebowitz.