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As of 1 January 2010 Subclass 457 visa holders whose visas were granted before 14 September 2009 are required to be paid market salary rates or a prescribed salary rate (whichever is higher) to bring them in line with people issued a Subclass 457 visas since 14 September.

In association with Strategic Human Resources, ISA Group hosted workshops on Thursday 3 December and Tuesday 8 December to raise the awareness of immigration changes made in 2009 and their impact on overseas recruitment. These events were over-subscribed and have attracted many queries from businesses that will need to recruit overseas workers as the skills shortage kicks in.  To view the presentation click here.

A person’s opportunities to lead a long and healthy life, to have access to education, health care and material goods, to enjoy political freedoms and to be protected from violence are all strongly influenced by where they live. And if you listen to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Australia is a top choice for anyone looking everything listed above.

A leading Australian immigration and international recruitment company has backed recent comments by the Premier of Western Australia that Australia could face severe shortages if a number of large projects on the drawing board come to fruition.  The Premier went on to say that there may be a need to relax migration laws to enable the skilled workers that will be needed to gain access to the country.

ISA Group Director and head of recruitment, Brett Merrey, agrees with the Premier’s prediction.

Australian businesses continue to rely on overseas labour to fill a skills shortfall despite the global financial crisis freeing up the labour market, according to a report.

Accounting and advisory firm KPMG, which will release the report today, warns that WA's skill shortages could get worse as major resource and energy projects gear up.

Leading Australian immigration and overseas recruitment company, ISA Group has opened an office in Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory.

The company, which has its head office in Perth and an office in Bunbury, Western Australia, as well as two offices in the Philippines, made the decision to establish a base  in the Northern Territory on the basis of activity in the region.

“There are many large resource projects either underway or in the planning stages that are using Darwin as a base,” says ISA Group Director, Brett Merrey.

With two joint venture partners, ISA Group has established a skills testing and training centre in Manila aimed at international businesses that recruit skilled labour from the Philippines.

Not deterred by the current global economic downturn, ISA Group invested in the centre after identifying the need for a ‘one stop’ location to interview and skills test candidates when it was recruiting a large pool of skilled workers for an Australian project.