Zambia

In my experience finding staff is not hard finding good staff that's a job and a half.

sonlymewalter

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That's who I was referring to. Indian and Pakistan migrants bringing little money in and sending money home & happy to earn less than those already in Aus - ergo bringing wages down (through no fault of their own)

Yep.

The buggars aren't game to come over any more. No more pounds being brought in from that lot to boost the economy any more

Amazulu

Ain't that the truth. You should see some of the muppets that I am having to hire just so we can get (half) a job done. Decent engineering people are very hard to find.

Zambia

Yet there is no shortage of Irish engineers looking for 457 sponsors?

sue1964

Yes there is one but goverment won't admit.I work in retail and been a huge downslide very worrying.

Mr Grumpy

In the case of Engineering/IT people from India they are not hired because they are worthless.

I work for a Uni in the Engineering Faculty and all of the academics hate teaching the Indians. They are typically lazy, argumentative and when they dont get their way they will often attempt to bribe someone. And they wonder why they contribute massively to the underemployed populace of Australia.

man_called_Horse

You forgot to mention arrogant, like the clown from another thread who's one and only line is the whole of Australia is about to be invaded by Indian workers taking everyone job because the are more efficient.

DeadVim

I've worked with a few Indians but I've seen many more Cowboys.

Kalenge

If the retail sector is suffering they're bringing it upon themselves. The Aussie dollar is the strongest it has been for a long time, yet imported goods don't see any significant drops, if any at all.

Why buy local and get ripped off? My wife buys contact lenses over the web and despite being despatched all the way from the Netherlands, costs half the price as buying the exact same brand over here.

GARRYP1302

You are complaining about the Indian and Pakistan workers, wait until you get workers from some of the EEC country's, I am an British trained pipe fitter served a 5 year apprenticeship, like thousands of my fellow workers is being forced out of work by cheap foreign labour, many have no skills what so ever, and as for being apprentice trained, not in a million years.majority never heard of an apprenticeship, let alone worked as one. what are the Australian unions doing to prevent it happening .
I have noticed about many employers here complaining about hiring poor workers, remember the saying if you pay peanuts you will only get monkeys working for you

ozzieeagle

Should be covered by the Award wages system, with a minimum payscale in place. At present the wages cannot legally be brought down, especially in the cases of TTrades.

Hopefully the Award wages system will be enough of a buffer against any threat of lowering wages across the main workforce.

Another reason why we can thank our Lucky stars that the liberals came undone at the last election over their Workchoices agenda.

Deancm_MKII

And yet Gillard is about to bankrupt the country and force jobs overseas...

welshviking

From the mouths of 2 very decent engineering people......we've lived apart for 8 months as we were unable successfully find engineering/mechanical work. We've looked between the Gold Coast and Gladstone and inland too, so a fairly large area. Before Aus, I've only ever been unemployed for a week, which was my choice, I freelanced and had more than ample job offers.

The job I am in is very unsafe, as of today we've decided to throw in the towel. I'm handing in my notice this aft, meeting the hubby in Melbourne next week and then we're both doing a road trip back up to our business in the country.

Defeat it is, but at least we gave it a damn good try. Fed up of being skint and apart.

CelticRover

Wishing you both the best.

jimbo_d

Have you not tried Brisbane? That place is going crazy trying to hire people for coal mines and coal seam gas LNG jobs