Sentences with phrase «highly skilled foreign workers»

He says he also put his foot down about the small number of very highly skilled foreign workers that some businesses need.

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The Democratic candidate for president also attacked the company for last year laying off 250 technology workers after requiring some of them to train their replacements: foreign employees hired on temporary H - 1B visas for highly skilled technical workers through an Indian outsourcing firm.

In a vote today, the U.S. Senate passed a historic immigration reform bill whose provisions include a visa for foreign - born startup founders and an increase in the number of visas available to highly skilled workers employed by technology companies.

Legislators have announced efforts to improve the visa process and retain more highly skilled, foreign - born workers, but perhaps unsurprisingly considering the general lack of productivity in the current congress, these efforts have been largely ignored by lawmakers.

On June 12, 2017, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program will be launching a new pilot program called the Global Talent Stream (the «GTS») which will establish easier and faster processing of visa and work permit applications for certain foreign nationals with unique global talent and / or who are highly sForeign Worker Program will be launching a new pilot program called the Global Talent Stream (the «GTS») which will establish easier and faster processing of visa and work permit applications for certain foreign nationals with unique global talent and / or who are highly sforeign nationals with unique global talent and / or who are highly skilled.

Tech giants such as Facebook and other big companies, from Bank of America to Caterpillar, have long argued that the 85,000 annual cap on these visas is too low and that they need to bring in more foreign tech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American workers.

Tech giants such as Facebook and Microsoft have long argued that the 85,000 annual cap on these visas is too low and that they need to bring in more foreign tech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American workers.

Simply distinguishing between highly skilled foreign migrants and unskilled or low - skilled immigrants would help pave the way for legislation that protects the employment prospects of local workers without restricting access to the talent that is needed to pull economies further out of recession.