In a key development, which though may not much inspire many people–apart from swelling the permit charges–Australia has implemented a fresh, stricter permit system, for recruiting the workers from abroad. With this, it has made it essential for the business enterprises to employ migrants only post they have explored every possible local option.
As far as the existing 457 permit system is concerned, the recruiters, at the present, will have to make it public that they failed to come across a national for a specific employment opportunity, prior to employing any overseas employee.
As per reports, via the fresh regulation–prior to offering sponsorship to a migrant—the involved organizations will have to duly publicize, for a period of 4 months, in the media for a job-opening. Talking about the development, the concerned immigration body, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC), has allegedly declared that some recruiters/job-providers were sourcing their qualified labor requirements from outside the nation’s territorial jurisdictions, minus first checking the accessibility of labor at the local levels.
The recruiters/job-providers will, at present, also have to furnish particulars on the number of workers they will offer sponsorship to & if a fresh nominee fulfills the English language condition. In this connection, an involved person observed that the workers ought to be, at present, hired by their sponsor, in a direct worker-employer association. He added that the same forbids on-hire systems which fall outside the sanctioned Labor Agreements even as it stops the sponsors from hiring visa-holders through arrangements which look like independent contracting deals.
According to the latest permit charges that became effective recently, the candidates for family permits will be slapped with extra fee. For the family members above 18, the charge will be 50% of the permit submission fee (USD 1530), and for those below 18, the same will be 25% of the fee (USD 765).
Allegedly, the latest pricing structure swells the load for those with mates & dependents, and even as there is no augmentation in the cost for a student permit for a person, thanks to the new arrangement, those with partners & dependents have to cough-up considerably higher.
Besides, Down Under has also made public a revised Skilled Occupation List (SOL). It sees 5 professions, namely, Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (Avionics), Retail Pharmacist, Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (Structures), Hospital Pharmacist, apart from Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical) being eliminated from the SOL. The fresh list duly establishes which professions are entitled for independent & family sponsored skilled migration permits.
Significantly, as per as 2011 survey, 295,362 persons in Australia had proclaimed that they have their roots in India. In 2011-12, the immigrants from India were the topmost source of permanent movement to Down Under.
