Labor should lift the annual permanent migration intake beyond 195,000 to make up for the hundreds of thousands of missing workers who were unable to relocate to Australia during the pandemic, business advocates say., Deloitte is calling on Labor to bring more skilled workers into the country and consider scrapping labour market testing.
“Migration always needs to be a demand-driven program, and at present the demand is such that you could go beyond that [195,000] cap,” she told“This demand is really going to be here for at least three to five years, while businesses look at things like different training models, apprenticeships, [and] automation.”
While the strategy worked, delays processing visas at the Department of Home Affairs mean the applicants won’t arrive any time soon. “Government should continue to leverage this advantage by ensuring efficient and cost-effective visa settings so that businesses can attract the skilled workers they need,” Mr McKellar said.
“We have one client that’s had to put on a part-time resource to track their responses because they have an obligation to reply to everyone who applies for these roles” she said.
Heading into a recession (as we are) will make this whole discussion interesting. You can bring them in but if we have an unemployment issue what then.
No. The key to our skills predicament is the permanent migration program creates a big annual net skills DEFICIT because of the services migrants require. The only way to minimise skills shortages is to stabilise population and invest in ed'n & training:
migrants intake should not be a game of switching on/off We have both rent crisis +home supply crisis More migrants n students would make rent much worse When recession hits it'd be hard to stop the rush We have hosp beds crisis too Biz is just charging like cowboys
Labor and big business love driving down wages
Will be 250k before they get to the end of their first term.
More broken promises...AlboMP
No.