Leith reported yesterday on the terrific shift by Jacinda Ardern against temporary migration:
Both big and small companies are scrambling to hang on to their workforces, with thousands of temporary resident visas set to expire all at once….
There were about 350,000 temporary visa holders in the country during the lockdown, and the government estimated more than 200,000 of them had work visas with conditions that might need to be varied.
However, Immigration New Zealand was not renewing or issuing any new visas until it was satisfied there was no citizen or permanent resident available to do the applicant’s job…
Employers who wanted to keep temporary visa holders on as staff must readvertise their jobs, interview applicants and then offer any qualified candidates the position.
They would also need to satisfy Immigration they had done a thorough job and made a genuine effort.
Some of those roles would also require a skills match test, which was another time-consuming and potentially costly process…
Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway… cautioned that migrants need to be realistic about what opportunities will be available.
“In recent years we’ve had a labour market that has been highly dependent on the migrant workforce, and people could anticipate that visas would simply be rolled over because the work was there,” but he said that had changed with growing unemployment in New Zealand…
It’s very interesting here to see Kristina Keneally chipping away at the population Ponzi as well with, of all people, Classic Jordies, last week:
This is an attempt to educate race-obsessed and brainwashed Millennials that their own standards of living are at risk. Immigration fallout is not about race, it’s about class.
Is this the beginning of a stronger shift away from the racists at The Guardian and ABC? Let’s hope so.
Thanks to COVID-19, the jig is up anyway so pollies might as well get ahead of it.
