Australian Immigration Daily News

By Svetlana Gunaratne  - Member of Migration Alliance and RMA

Genuine Temporary Entrant (GTE) criterion is applicable to a number of visas:

1. Student and Student Guardian Visas

These words have been taken from a speech this morning, 7 August 2018, by the Hon Alan Tudge MP, Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs.  The speech was made to the Business Council of Australia in Melbourne.  The speech talks about the case for Skilled Migrants, the Global Talent Scheme and the National Recruitment exercise.

"Australia has been built on migration. Successive waves of migrants have come to our shores, help build our economy and made Australia the greatest multicultural nation on earth.

The journey, however, is never complete. We need to continue to work to constantly improve the quality of our skilled migration intake. We need to always ensure that we are selecting the right people and that there are high expectations of integration upon new arrivals and policies to support that.

South Australia as well as Tasmania Government revised the skilled occupations list over the weekend with Tasmania and South Australia publishing their revised lists earlier today.  

South Australia: 

South Australia specifically highlighted occupations which are now seen as classed as “low availability” including: 

Migration Alliance members are invited to a Melbourne networking event

Join Migration Alliance members and other professionals for an evening of fine wine and canapés, overlooking the Yarra River and Melbourne Skyline.

Network with like-minded migration professionals and C-level executives.

Indian national Midhun Basi came to Australia on a 457 visa. Mr Midhun says he was paid less than the legal minimum for a 38-hour week, and worked more than 70 hours a week in the restaurant over a period of 18 months. It’s estimated by South Coast Labour Council that if the claims are proven Mr Basi could be owed up to $220,000 in unpaid wages.

It’s also alleged that during his time at the restaurant Mr Basi was required to give cash to his employer which his employer said was to cover rent and bills at the restaurant.

This case is the latest in a series of high-profile wage theft allegations in the hospitality industry around the country.

Source: ACTU-media-release----broken-work-visa-system-and-wage-theft-allegations.pdf