On: Plan to restrict highly skilled foreign workers could be a boon for India

[prebrov]

Wouldn't this incentivise companies to pass down these costs to an H1B employees in the form of even lower pay and/or reduced benefits?

High cost of labour acquisition, IMO, is a huge contributor to "workplace" abuse in black markets and debt is the mechanism of modern slavery.

[stale2002 → prebrov]

It might pass down to the h1bs, but it would NOT pass down to Americans (why pay an h1b 80k +50k tax, if you can pay an American 120k).

But you can also solve this by just having minimum 100k+ salary requirements.