Australia is reviewing its entire visa and immigration system in an all-out effort to rapidly increase its workforce
Work incentives include £500 sign-on bonuses and half price food and drinks for employees and their friends.Elliot Solomon, Solotel chief executive, said it is increasingly hard to get restaurant staffIn March, British backpacker Chloe Ankers moved from Manchester to Cairns and now Sydney."The pay is amazing, compared to back home there's a big difference."With most foreigners preferring the beach to the bush, staff shortages are even worse in regional and remote areas.
A total of almost half a million workers are needed in almost every industry, from hospitality and tourism to construction, technology, agriculture and mining, as well as teachers and nurses. Car workshop owner Cameron Virtue is under pressure and cannot expand his business. Without enough technicians, he is working a 70-hour week.He said:"I think we need to look more overseas, I generally find that techs trained in the UK are far superior to what we have here."He recently returned home to see family and friends and says that was the"final nail in the coffin".
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