{"id":15974,"date":"2012-01-09T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T01:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=15974"},"modified":"2012-01-12T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T20:52:40","slug":"it-jobs-are-up-fairness-for-high-skilled-immigrants-act-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=15974","title":{"rendered":"IT jobs are up, Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9222752\/IT_Jobs_Up_Skilled_Immigrants_Act_Stalls\">computerworld<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. government report showing that hiring is up had some good news for IT workers: The tech industry added about 7,100 jobs in November, an increase of 0.17% from the previous month.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) moved to block legislation that would eliminate per-country caps on employer- sponsored green cards.<\/p>\n<p>According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data analyzed by the industry group TechServe Alliance, the overall employment number for the tech industry reached almost 4.068 million last month, representing a year-over-year gain of 2.1%. The total is close to the all-time high of 4.088 million reached in June 2008, according to TechServe.<\/p>\n<p>IT pay might be seeing gains as well, though the data supporting that is more anecdotal.<\/p>\n<p>The TechServe Alliance total considers only high-tech industry workers; it might not account for someone working in IT at, say, a food manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Roberts, CEO of the alliance, said his member firms are seeing strong IT demand. &#8220;I remain very bullish going into 2012,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Grassley said he is blocking Senate action on the so-called Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act because &#8220;it does nothing to better protect Americans.&#8221; The bill had sailed through the U.S. House in late November on a 389-15 vote.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley didn&#8217;t say what changes he&#8217;s seeking, but he placed the bill on hold, putting it into a procedural limbo that could sink it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source from computerworld A U.S. government report showing that hiring is up had some good news for IT workers: The tech industry added about 7,100 jobs in November, an increase of 0.17% from the previous month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15976,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974\/revisions\/15976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}