The consulting firms have looked beyond Australia in the past year to fill gaps in hard-to-staff areas including audit and cybersecurity.
Consulting firms Deloitte and EY have sponsored more than 800 skilled workers from overseas in the past year as part of a move to fill gaps in hard-to-staff areas including audit and cybersecurity.
“We go overseas to hire talent which is not readily available onshore in hot skill/high-demand areas such as audit, cyber [security], technology-based professions.” So-called “visa portability” would put an end to the current system where migrants are tied to their sponsoring employer and would increase the time the employee has to find a new job to six months from the existing 60 days, said Teresa Liu, the Australia and New Zealand managing partner of multinational immigration law firm Fragomen.Fragomen’s Teresa Liu says the proposed six months period to search for a new job is generous.
“But at the same time, there is appropriate oversight of workers at the lower end of the wage spectrum which reduces the risk for exploitation while ensuring Australian workers aren’t displaced.”The proposed visa system changes would help attract more skilled workers to Australia, said Linda Rowe, the Asia Pacific global immigration leader at EY.“The move away from occupation lists to evidenced based assessments of skills is long overdue,” she said.
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