New Laws Could Aid Foreign Workers

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The Abbott government is considering changes to migration rules that would allow local firms to employ skilled foreigners for as long as a year without applying for the 457 skilled worker visa, The Australian Financial Review reports.
The new temporary visa proposal from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection would also reportedly allow foreign workers to bypass language and skills requirements and remove requirements for companies to prove the position cannot be filled by a local.
Should the government proceed with such a plan it will likely be warmly welcomed by employers, but derided by unions.
“There are already significant problems with graduate employment in professions such as dentistry, computer science, medicine and engineering,” skilled migration researcher Bob Birrell told the AFR.
“Liberalisation such that being mooted is going to crash head-on with that situation. The government is going to have some angry professional associations on its hands.”
This news story is reprinted from www.businessspectator.com.au
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