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Podcast: Good Morning, HR
Episode: Employment-Based Immigration with Kevin Lashus
Description: In episode 69, Coffey talks with Kevin Lashus about employment-based immigration.They discuss the relationship between education-based immigration and employment-based immigration; the most common types of employment-related visas; US annual limitations on work visas and the political reasons those limits haven’t increased since 1990; immigration’s impact on wages; how prevailing wages are determined; regulatory requirements and enforcement efforts in place to protect foreign talent from mistreatment; the effect of current labor shortages on businesses; how the evolution from employment-related visas to permanent residency to citizenship incentivizes immigrants to be good employees and good neighbors; how employment layoffs affe...