The law firm of Cohen and Grigsby has conviently made a huge mistake right before the immigration debate.
In a marketing seminar in Pennsylvania, the Director of Marketing, Lawrence Leibowitz, walks us through how to hire H1-B employees - namely by going through the motions to pretend to hire US workers, but disqualifying each and every one until you have complied with the letter of the law.
But don't take my word for it.
[O]ur goal is clearly not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker," says Lawrence Lebowitz, director of marketing for the Pittsburgh law firm Cohen & Grigsby, before an audience of employers at the firm's conference. The seminar provides details on how employers can meet the government's requirements for the Permanent Labor Certificate program (PERM), which lets employers sponsor foreign workers for permanent residency if they can demonstrate no U.S. worker can fill a job. The trick, according to Cohen & Grigsby attorneys, is to only go through the motions of hiring Americans without ever intending to.
Is this what Bush has in mind when he says jobs Americans won't do? This deals with H1-B's, which are the most talented portions of the immigrant pool - and not the illegal immigrants that are being offered amnesty on Thursday by John McCain, Jon Kyl, and Lindsey Graham, and Teddy Kennedy.
But this goes to the root of the problem. The system is broken - and the people running it don't care if it affects American workers.
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