Shadow Veteran Affairs Minister Barnaby Joyce says it’s “counterintuitive” to lift the minimal pay for short-term expert visa holders following the important report of Australia’s migration system.
“You’re mainly saying for somebody to make beds within the motel which we are able to’t get anybody to do – if you happen to put the wage up effectively the one manner they will get it’s they put your motel invoice up,” Mr Joyce informed Sky Information Australia.
“We ought to be logical like they’re in so many different nations the place individuals are completely happy to receives a commission the wages value a lot to them – it’s higher than the life they’d, and we get a job performed that received’t get performed except you need to pay exorbitant wages.
“There’s no trick to this – it simply goes straight again in your invoice, straight again in your meals invoice, straight again in your motel invoice.”