Australia Migration
Workforce shortages: Australia decides to hike cap on permanent migration
Melbourne: The Australian government has decided to hike the cap on permanent migration for the first time in a decade to help fill massive workforce shortages.
It will take up to 195,000 people this financial year - an increase of 35,000, reports BBC.
Several sectors in the country are facing staffing gaps amid ongoing pandemic and Australia's tough border policies.
Workers from countries including China, India and the UK - Australia's top sources of migration - are needed to fill them, the government was quoted as saying BBC.
There are more than 480,000 job vacancies across the country, but with unemployment at an almost 50-year low, employers are struggling to fill the gaps.
The hospitality, healthcare, agriculture and skilled trade industries are the major badly hit sectors.
"Our focus is always Australian jobs first... but the impact of Covid has been so severe that even if we exhaust every other possibility, we will still be many thousands of workers short, at least in the short term," Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil was quoted as saying by BBC.
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