Restaurant owners may soon have to look locally for chefs if the federal government follows through on its 'skill-first' migration shake-up.
Restaurant owners may soon have to look locally for chefs if the federal government follows through on its "skill-first" migration shake-up.
Some of those professions could be saved by the government's plan to grant visas to anybody earning over $130,000, regardless of occupation. But the ministers are also convinced that the temporary program has been misused to create conditions of "permanent temporariness" that do not benefit migrants or employers.
In December, the ministers unveiled a plan to dispense with the spaghetti, to be replaced by just three streams for work visas. The latter two categories include many occupations which are currently eligible for visas, but which are now tapped for either possible or probable removal in the slimmed-down new system.
Carpenters, hairdressers, bakers, panel beaters, graphic designers and PR professionals are also left in limbo, as are several varieties of ICT support. "It's pretty much impossible to argue we don't have a shortage of carpenters or painters given our plan to build more homes, but this list suggests they may or may not be in shortage."
"At the moment there are 8,000 chef positions being advertised on Seek … I can guarantee you that productivity will decline if you don't have enough workers to generate as much turnover as you can. For example, construction union the CFMEU has long objected to attempts to bring in more construction workers."Consultation can very quickly lead into lobbying from industry and unions," he said. "It's always been a bit of a black box about how these lists are constructed in the end."
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