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?
The system was built to be abused, and it’s serving its purpose. It’s been like this for decades.
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!
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.
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
Employers list the job at such low pay that nobody in the US applies.
So what? He has presidential immunity.