Software company's response to Australian government abolishing migrant visas

Post by pyrophane » Thu, Apr 20, 2017, 3:02 AM UTC

lysp wrote: post #7

EduardoBautista wrote: post #2

Can someone give me some context here? So now it's impossible to hire foreign workers?

Companies are only meant to use the visa to fill a need/gap where there are no local workers to fill a job. The minimum wage for the visa is $40,000 USD ($53k AUD). What companies are doing however, is hiring foreign workers (typically from India for IT based roles) and paying them $40k rather than the local average wage of $75-100k. They are using the visa as a method to decrease wage costs to almost half of what a…

Post by sanswork » Thu, Apr 20, 2017, 3:08 AM UTC

yakult wrote: post #6

They should just replace the whole shebang with 'pay us $x to get a visa, $y for PR, $z for citizenship'. Company wants to hire from overseas? Fine, they can figure out how to split the cost between company and employee, with zero government involvement. Rich people from the US seeking doomsday shelter? A few million dollars, a clean criminal record and less than 48 hours in the queue. Much easier than the current sy…

Post by yakult » Thu, Apr 20, 2017, 3:10 AM UTC

catmanjan wrote: post #11

yakult wrote: post #6

They should just replace the whole shebang with 'pay us $x to get a visa, $y for PR, $z for citizenship'. Company wants to hire from overseas? Fine, they can figure out how to split the cost between company and employee, with zero government involvement. Rich people from the US seeking doomsday shelter? A few million dollars, a clean criminal record and less than 48 hours in the queue. Much easier than the current sy…

You'll end up with a monoculture of uber rich foreigners - a problem that Australia already has. Maybe it would work when we introduce death taxes?

Post by catmanjan » Thu, Apr 20, 2017, 3:18 AM UTC

yakult wrote: post #16

catmanjan wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll end up with a monoculture of uber rich foreigners - a problem that Australia already has. Maybe it would work when we introduce death taxes?

Almost all social problems created from this change in immigration policy can be fixed with money. And we'll be swimming in money. And we can use it to fix problems unrelated to this policy.

Post by sanswork » Thu, Apr 20, 2017, 3:23 AM UTC

cynix wrote: post #17

sanswork wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really hard to find intermediate to senior devs in Australia and has been for nearly a decade. It's even harder now with a few big companies like Atlassian grabbing them up enmasse whenever they become available.

Sounds like they're simply expensive to hire, not necessarily hard to find.