Battling industry welcomes addition of chefs to skilled migrants list

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Chefs have been added to a greatly expanded list of priority skilled migrants. 9News

Immigration Minister Alex Hawke announced today an extra 22 occupations to the Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List.

The PMSOL, first established in September last year, is meant to ensure critical skilled occupations will continue to be filled through the COVID-19 crisis.Australia's unemployment rate plummets to pre-COVID levels President of the Australian Culinary Federation, Karen Doyle, said the peak body welcomed the additions of chefs to the list.

"There is a huge shortage of skilled chefs and cooks, in the culinary and hospitality industries," she said. She said while the shortage had pre-dated the COVID-19 crisis, the border closures that followed had exacerbated it.The hospitality industry has been hard-hit by the pandemic.

 

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Where are all the TAFE chefs? They have been pumping these people out by the thousands

Pity the skills that chefs have,have been pitifully underpaid and undervalued for the past few decades. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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