Australia cuts jobs, overhauls migration plan |
In the wake of the ongoing pandemic, Australia has drastically restructured its migration planning programme for 2020-21, denting ambitions of Indians planning to migrate or seek jobs in the continent. Under the migration programme, jobs for overseas people have been cut drastically as the Australian government wants to offer more jobs for native Australians. The programme envisages priority to certain professions like IT and healthcare over others as in the US. This year, only 79,600 placements have been allocated under the skill stream, a fall from one hundred eight thousand 682 placements allocated in 2019-20. Skilled independent visas, which allow outsiders to settle and work anywhere in the country, have been reduced to 6,500, a sharp fall of 65% from the previous years. Employer-sponsored visas are set to decline by about 27% to 22,000 spots. The Australian department of home affairs said the focus for the permanent migration programme 2020-21 is to support their economic recovery, growing Australian businesses and creating jobs for Australians. The areas that are seeing a rise are the `global talent` bracket and the `business innovation and investment program`. The global talent allows only experts in their field to fill gaps that cannot be filled by Australians, while business innovation will be used for job creation.
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