Unions want employers to prove they have lifted wages before they can import skilled workers, as a condition for increasing the intake of permanent migrants to 200,000 a year.
Unions want employers to prove they have lifted wages before they can import skilled workers as a condition for increasing the intake of permanent migrants to 200,000 a year.
However, ACTU president Michele O’Neil said such an increase would require an urgent reset of the “broken” skills and migration system as well as “structural adjustments to the economy to embed wage growth for all workers”, including to the bargaining system.“Too often, employers claim a skills shortage when in reality there is a shortage of jobs with good wages and conditions.
“Employers will only be able to engage migrant workers if they have first proven they have offered improved wages and conditions,” the paper said. There could also be a salary floor per industry or occupation that would be set at 30 per cent above the relevant median pay rate.
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