A week from budget night we have several big announcements to consider, writes latingle
It's not a huge chunk of the workforce, or even a huge chunk of the hospitality workforce. But it's interesting to contemplate the downward pressure on wages in the sector more broadly from employers knowing that — at $53,900 — they can be paying well below average earnings to workers who are effectively bound to them if they want to stay in Australia.
The government has announced it will lift the TSMIT rate to $70,000 from July 1: the rate it would have been at if it had been indexed all this time. But the government — by this stage represented in the immigration portfolio by Peter Dutton — chose not to follow the recommendations. One of the reasons why it has been broadly acknowledged that the rate has to rise is that it is one of the factors that has helped flood the pool of people seeking to become permanent residents — or at least to keep rolling over temporary visas — with relatively low skilled workers and made it more difficult for higher skilled workers to get into the country.Most of the people who end up on a temporary skills visa arrive as international students or on a working holiday visa.
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