The ACTU’s brilliant submission to the upcoming Jobs & Skills Summit demanded that all temporary skilled migrants be paid at least average weekly full-time earnings:
Increase the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold (TSMIT) – the salary floor for temporary skilled migrants – to Average Full Time Weekly Earnings (approx. $90,916.80 at November 2021) to be indexed annually by wage price index (WPI), with unions and FWO to have a role in monitoring and independent verification of salary levels of temporary migrant workers. Consider options to introduce a salary floor by industry or occupation, where the floor is set at 30% above the median pay rate…
Predictably, this proposal has been quickly shot down by business groups, who claim that such a TSMIT would cancel out 70% of current ‘skilled’ migrants and would “wreck” the immigration system:
