The ACTU also wants the government to deal with skills shortages by providing more funding to train locals rather than rely on migration.
The union movement is urging the Albanese government to limit temporary skilled migration to jobs paying more than $90,900 and increase the fee employers must pay to bring in foreign workers.
Labor has pledged to lift the TSMIT, which has been frozen at $53,900 since 2013 – well below the $65,000 it would be if it was indexed to wage growth over the past decade., with about 80 per cent of full-time jobs having a salary above this level.In its submission, the ACTU calls for the threshold to be increased to $90,917 – the level of average earnings – after which it would be indexed annually to wages growth.
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