"The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability."
For companies looking for extraordinary talent, this rule boon.
Companies tring to hire cheap labour will have difficult time facing the new rule.
Society steps in to bargain for workers if it believes the typical worker’s decision making is actually harming society.
E.g. taking 7$/hr jobs without benefits depresses wages of local workers, etc.
Also we should ban paying for coaching. Students should get minimum wage and shouldn’t have to pay a tennis coach if they want to win championships even if they are Federer.
It has been demonstrated that unions strengthen earning power of labor, and that corporations have a long track record of abusing the H1B visa program.
I thought the idea was that it's for foreign workers who are so rare or specialised that you simply cannot get a local to do the same job. It's hard for outsiders to a given industry to evaluate whether someone is exceptional enough to grant a visa, so the salary is an indirect measurement - if they can command that sort of money then they're probably rare enough that it's a legitimate request for the H-1B.
