The minimum salary for temporary ‘skilled’ migrants who are sponsored by an employer will rise from $53,900 to $70,000 from 1 July, which is still $15,000 below the current median full-time income of $85,000.
Aged-care providers have urged the government to exempt the sector from the new rules, contending that it will affect their ability to recruit staff.
They also argue that it will effectively make company-specific labour agreements obsolete and force them on to the government’s new industry-wide aged care labour agreements, which has a lower minimum salary of $51,222 and grants unions special access rights.
