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by cmdrfred 4041 days ago
This needs to be transparent like it or not. These companies are arguing that there isn't any talent for them to hire so they have to get someone from overseas. If this information wasn't publicly available they would be paying some of these guys 9 dollars an hour.
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conanbatt 4041 days ago
That is senseless, you dont need citizen control to check that the salaries are prevailing wages, that is a job that can be done by the government with multiple different agencies at a very low level of cost or risk. Also, it doesnt make sense because it doesnt include US employees salary of the same companies which is what you need to make that fair/unfair comparison. Even worse, the immigrants themselves can't make that check, which is the most important one you need.

The fact that this information is available to citizens is a purely exclusion measure, that makes clear that immigrant workers don't have the same rights as US citizens.

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forgotAgain 4041 days ago
The fact that this information is available to citizens is a purely exclusion measure,

No it's not. The records in question aren't public because they involve foreign workers. They are public because the records involve a program run by the government.

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LLWM 4041 days ago
So are the records of the incomes of citizens. That's how the IRS decides how much you owe. Yet those are not published.
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forgotAgain 4041 days ago
The IRS records of foreign workers aren't published either.
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LLWM 4041 days ago
Their salaries are. That's the whole point of this submission.
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cmdrfred 4041 days ago
You obviously don't know anything about the US government. Without transparency there is corruption. Why do you think everyone is upset over the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal being done in secret? The US government can not be trusted.

The most recent example of this: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/pentagon-was...

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conanbatt 4041 days ago
The only information in this case relevant to check is the salary itself. You can avoid the company name entirely, have only title and location, and get that information as well, and that protects the identity of foreign workers considerably.
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