{"id":70727,"date":"2022-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordannewsgazette.com\/?guid=02de4cc6ff2c9decfe039bf07d7e5f2f"},"modified":"2022-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T00:00:00","slug":"permanent-migration-cap-raised-for-first-time-in-decade-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordannewsgazette.com\/permanent-migration-cap-raised-for-first-time-in-decade-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent migration cap raised for first time in decade in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
Australia is raising its cap on permanent migration for the first time in a decade to help fill massive workforce shortages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It will take up to 195,000 people this financial year – an increase of 35,000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The pandemic and Australia’s tough border policies have exacerbated staffing gaps in many sectors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Workers from countries including China, India and the UK – Australia’s top sources of migration – are needed to fill them, the government said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The hospitality, healthcare, agriculture and skilled trade industries have been particularly hard hit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Jordan News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australia is raising its 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.The pandemic and Australia’s tough border policies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n