why do employers need to hire foreign workers when there are U.S.citizens out of work?????

Answer 1

I don't think it's because of low wages...mainly, it is because employers have a difficult time finding employable people, or people who are on welfare and prefer to live that way..basically, they don't want to work...face it, there are thousands of u.s. citizens that don't want to work, look at the homeless shelters and the big city streets are full of them. I think it is sad...most foreign workers show up every morning, work a full day and give 101%. I've worked since I was 15, starting with summer jobs, then working after school, and so on and so forth. You learn so much people when you've been around them.

Answer 2

It's a money issue. The employers want cheap foreign labor. You would think that the government would not allow it and that's why they do restrict the hiring of them but still... The labor force here cannot accept low paying jobs because the cost of living is so high here. It costs money to pay for rent, a mortgage, a car, etc. You shouldn't pay your rent?? The money has to come from somewhere.

We don't have so-called skilled labor because our educational system is not keeping pace with today's demands. Employers change constantly. It is difficult to keep up. Our science and math departments are lagging. We have the people and we have more educated people who can get the education and skills needed to fulfill the jobs but employers don't want to pay when they can get someone cheaper. My dad is in this situation. He is an electrical engineer with lots of experience. He has stayed ahead of the technology because he works very hard. He is very smart. I've been told that by so many high level executives my whole life that my dad is friends with. These people help each other out and are users big time. It's a reason I feel the way I do.

Answer 3

Do any of you who have answered this question have any background for answering it? It sounds like your all just saying what you think in your angry little worlds. Wake up! BENEFITS ARE THE SAME! THEY ARE MANDATED BY LAW! WAGES ARE AT LEAST MINUMUM WAGE, WHICH IS MANDATED BY LAW. Why answer the question when you have no idea what your talking about?

Employers typically hire foreign workers for peak load season work. Work that cannot be done because there is not enough of the specific type of worker around. Example being harvest season at some larger farms and orchards.

I hire foreign workers to do the job that I struggle to find others to do. I manage a pizza restaurant chain a resort area of the U.S. During the busy summer months, we cannot find employees that are reliable to come to work everyday. A lot of the college age kids will quit if they cannot get a certain day off they wanted. By hiring seasonal foreign or h2b workers, we provide them with much more pay than they would make in their countries, and also somewhere to live. In exchange we receive a work force for 3-4 months that will be here every day, and work with better work standards that many Americans do not posses. We pay them the same as local workers, and they all receive the same benefits.

It is not the foreign workers fault that our unemployment rate is high, it is the workers. How many people do you know that refuse to work at McDonald's or Burger King because that would be "lowering their standards?"
Americans are not accepting jobs that are out there.

Answer 4

WE have the skilled labor to do the job but US corporations still insist on hiring foreign labor because they can get away with paying them 1/6th the wage! In fact seimens fired US programmers and replaced them with foreign programmers. The worst part was that the American programmers HAD TO TRAIN THE FOREIGN PROGRAMMERS FOR ONE YEAR!
This is just one example out of millions!

Answer 5

US workers are reluctant to work for less than minimum wage, without benefits like payments to Social Security, unemployment, etc.
They are also reluctant to work on hazardous jobs without the OSHA required stuff and don't want to work long hours for no overtime. In other words we expect all the things that our government requires of an employer. That is why we are so pissed at the government for not deporting all the illegals, who employers can hire for almost nothing and make huge profits off their labor unlike Americans who are required to get the many benefits our ancestors fought so hard to make ours.

Answer 6

There is no NEED to it at all. Employers hire foreign workers becasue they can pay them less, give them no benefits and make them work in poor conditions and they will do it whereas U.S. citizens usually have unions or other governmental agencies which regulate those things for them.

Answer 7

because the big companies don't want to pay fair wages.. so they hire foreign workers who will work for unfair wages.. it's all the result of crooked politics and capitalism that's gotten out of control..

Answer 8

AVAILABILITY of skilled workers.

Added:
What's with the "thumbs down" this time?I have openings for machine operators (current applicants can't read a tape measure,much less do simple addition and subtraction)an accounting clerk(last applicant asked what I meant by "accounting skills required),and 2 lead people(no applicants to date).Do you expect companies to relocate to a labor available area or is it reasonable for companies to expect job applicants to have at least SOME skills?Stop patting yourselves on the back and stop trying to convince yourselves that just because you are an American that you have a higher skill level that a foreign applicant.I see it first hand every day,the young American applicant has a Long way to go.

Answer 9

They are addicted to cheap foreign labor that they can treat like an indentured servant and not pay benefits to. They are traitors.

Answer 10

In some cases it's because they are cheaper. In other cases, it's because they need specific skill sets.