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Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers

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On 3/03/2015 10:58 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>:
>
>> On 3/03/2015 3:13 PM, Hils wrote:
>>> I recently saw a local government recruiter specify that applicants
>>> must have a "working knowledge of who colleagues are and what they
>>> do". The effect, which is presumably intended, will be to keep the
>>> same staff doing the same work but change their job titles.
>>
>> Or a rather thinly veiled attempt to circumvent a rule requiring that
>> external candidates be considered.
>
> When you are applying for an employment-based Green Card in the US, you
> must demonstrate that no American resident is willing and able to do the
> job.

Which is a fiction anyway unless the job is truly extraordinary. What it 
really means is that the employer cannot find someone at a price they're 
willing to pay, and prefers to undermine the earning power of people in 
the relevant profession by importing lower priced workers from elsewhere.

Sylvia.

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If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-03-02 23:59 +0000
  Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-02 18:15 -0800
  Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-03-03 13:47 +1100
  Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2015-03-03 04:13 +0000
    Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-03-03 16:03 +1100
      Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-03-03 10:31 +0000
      Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-03-03 13:58 +0200
        Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-03-04 14:42 +1100
          Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-03-04 12:59 +0000
            Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-03-04 15:32 +0200
              Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-03-04 14:26 +0000
                Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-03-05 12:22 +1100
      Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-03-03 18:40 +0100
        Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-03-04 14:00 +1100
    Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers DD <usenet.xyzzyx@spamgourmet.com> - 2015-03-03 05:12 -0800
    Re: If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-03-03 18:34 +0100

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