Browsing: Overseas & sponsored workers (54 items)

An HR professional has been fined more than $100k, amid more than $4 million in penalties handed down after a "deliberate" scheme to deprive workers of their entitlements.

Offshoring is enabling many organisations to grow more quickly, but it's not yet broadly adopted due to some misconceptions, a talent advisor says.

A new migration strategy will streamline the much-criticised labour market testing regime and create a new three-tiered temporary skills pathway, the Federal Government has announced.

An employer has overcome local skills shortages and achieved an ambitious hiring target, using market-leading data analysis and talent mapping strategies.

An employee's role began as a "regular paid job, but soon changed to an exploitative nightmare", a tribunal has found in awarding her $85k in penalties.

The approval time for employer-sponsored visas has sped up dramatically, while the number of approvals has almost doubled, according to a migration expert who says further positive changes are on the way.

Targeting talent in strategically selected countries is helping a resources employer overcome an array of workforce challenges, with the talent team "fine-tuning" its process to what the business wants to see.

Ikea has turned an eight-week placement program into a permanent recruitment pillar, after achieving success on multiple levels with a pilot refugee workforce inclusion program.

The Federal Budget for 2023-24 will help deliver more of the skills employers need, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

The Federal Government has released a draft strategy to overhaul Australia's "broken" and "crazily complex" migration system, with a major review confirming it is "not fit for purpose" and that some elements, such as labour market testing, should be scrapped entirely.