In the lead-up to the Federal Government’s Jobs Summit in Canberra later this week, ANU Professor of Economics Dr Stephen Howes, an expert on Pacific labour mobility, offers some thoughts on Pacific labour opportunities and solutions to help ease Australian red meat processing’s labour crisis
MOST Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) workers in Australia are employed in abattoirs – at last count it was two-thirds of the 6000-plus PLS workers now in Australia.
Under PLS, now part of the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, Pacific and Timor-Leste nationals can work in…
