Even as the dust settles on the midterm election and the people have voted overwhelmingly conservative, quite clearly sending a message that they do NOT support Obama’s plans, the President clings to his vow to exercise executive action with regards to immigration.

Obama made a clear and rather inflammatory statement on television November 9^th, once again answering the question of immigration stating “I’m going to do what I need to do.” Leaving the country wondering what does “I” mean? Clearly the President means to push forward on his own, but is it constitutional?

The obvious expectation is that Obama will attempt to press the executive order before he faces a stonewall in January with a new Republican majority in both houses. Then there is the spill over into other pressing issues, The Presidents nominee to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch has already been posed the question of how she would rule on the issue.

Both Ted Cruz, Senator R-Texas, and his colleague Mike Lee, R-Utah, want the senate to wait until the new year to take up the nomination for obvious reasons and have already pressed Lynch for her stance on the issue.

Cruz and Lee argue that as Attorney General Lynch would be the President’s chief law enforcement officer and given as such, any nominee to the position should be expected to demonstrate a total commitment to the law. They want to see Lynch exercise the opportunity to show that she possesses these qualities by making her stance on the issue known. Driving this home they added, “…beginning with a statement [of] whether or not she believes the President’s executive amnesty plans are constitutional and legal.”

As additional road blocks the conservatives are pushing for the lame-duck session’s budget to strip any available funding for executive orders. Essentially they are saying, if you insist on passing the order let’s see you do it with no money.

And so it goes on, we will have to wait and see what will become of the work permits for current illegal immigrants, but that hasn’t stopped the labor laws in California from changing in the recent elections illegal or not all workers in California have protection from mistreatment.

You can see all the protection laws here.

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Is there a Shortage of STEM workers or Stem jobs?

The debate is still going on! STEM industries require expert and qualified employees. However since ages there has been a shortage of qualified citizens who wish to work in the field of engineering, math, science etc. However another segment of people believe that despite of a growing number of graduates from these fields, people are unable to get employment in such fields and hence have to settle for alternate professions.
In one of the arguments, it is deemed that the shortage is due to the increase in salaries despite a decline or stagnation in other fields. For instance, the field of software engineering witnessed a 36% rise in the years between 2000 and 2013, despite being considered to be some of the worst years for other professions.

Some others feel that there are a large number of people who graduate from those fields and yet are unable to seek employment after graduation.

Although the facts may differ from one industry to another, yet the there is a disagreement about the fact that these people need to opt for alternative positions as they are unable to procure employment in their selected fields. For instance, a computer graduate who got a management job is bad for his STEM degree, but this same degree actually helped him to get the job on first place.
Although there is no clarity about this issue, you cannot deny that having a STEM degree is going to be beneficial to help you in getting good employment.

Some people also feel that most of these jobs are being sent abroad as the companies are trying to save a lot of money by stating that they did not get enough qualified applications in US, despite the fact that a large number of fresh graduates were trying hard to get a job and almost half of them had to choose alternative careers. This often amounts to workplace discrimination. If you are not being considered for the position because of your nationality, your creed or your gender then this should be taken seriously.

The United employees Law Group is adept in assisting employees who have issues such as harassment, discrimination, insufficient wages etc at their workplace. You can get in touch with us for a free consultation.

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