Introduction
As a result of the shortage of registered and enrolled nurses in our facility it is much prudent to source for skilled health workers migrants to fill the gap. The migrants can lawfully work in Australia under an array of visas inclusive of the employer sponsored options also known as 457 visa. This means the skilled migrants to be employed are entitled to the similar basic workplace protections and rights equal to the Australian workers (Khoo, et al. 2007).
Working Legally In Australia
The organization is bound by the Migration Act 1968, which criminalizes employment of an illegal worker, or refer an illegal worker to a different organization. The organization must utilize the free online Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO) to verify the visa entitlements and status of a possible employee. The organization can also contact the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s for enquiries related to a visa holder 's work rights (Phillips & Stinks, 2012).
Basic Workplace Rights
The basic workplace rights and protections of all skilled migrants which ought to be met include: Complying with appropriate Australian standards which ensure workers have proper and legal work rights, award conditions including Australia’s National Employment Standards and workplace laws. Additionally, the organization must comply with the National Fair Work System, employers’ obligations to workers and National Employment Standards (Phillips & Stinks, 2012).
Basic Workplace
Nurses worldwide are renown for their immense passion to care, and it is certainly not a profession embarked upon without serious consideration and commitment. Nursing in Australia is a highly regulated and regarded profession, offering enriching work environments with the latest technology at hand. In comparison, nursing in a developing country, such as Malawi, is extremely challenging. Malawi’s population of just over fifteen million people is amongst the poorest in the world and has the lowest number of nurses in the South African Developed Community (Maluwa, Andre, Ndebele & Chilemba, 2012). There are many factors compounding the severe nursing shortage in Milawi. The profession suffers from poor remuneration, and has been critically
Australia pride itself on its strong human rights record and its standing as a good global citizen. However deeper analysis and according to recent situation that how boat people are being treated shows that Australia has failed to fulfill with its international human rights obligations in a number of areas. This is making the things complicating and has tendency towards receptionist and relativist arguments as regard as these international obligations. Especially, much of the focus in Australia and the country’s
Ever since the 1970s Australia has welcomed people from all cultures and prides itself of being a multicultural nation. It is now one of the most culturally diverse countries on the planet with almost half of all Australians either born overseas or have at least one parent who was. The basic norms that make a multicultural society like Australia's possible are human rights. They are the standards that guide interactions between people which encourage mutual respect and equality. However there are groups and individuals in Australia who deviate away from these norms and do not treat those from other cultures with the respect and dignity they are entitled to.
Workers are entitled to some employment rights including the national minimum wage, holiday pay and protection against unlawful discrimination but not covered by all statutory rights.
Okay, now I don’t want to alarm anyone in this room, but it has comes to my attention that Australia needs to have an increase of temporary work visas for high-skilled immigrant workers. As you know our country is filled with many people talented in different categories but the issue is that even these talents are not enough to seal Australia’s job sectors. During early 2007, Australia has targeted Europe and particularly the UK to help them resolve the problem. But that wasn’t enough workers so during that year and the upcoming 8 years, there has been an extreme lack of skilled professionals in Australia particularly in Medicine and other Health related fields.
Hiring nurses from other countries that have comparable education and experience is the answer to
that contemporary society exists in a post-modern era where westernised societies enjoy the benefits of higher living standards, where the rights of employees are elicited within the Australian Constitution and the rights of humans are dictated within Geneva conventions. An era where employees are entitled to government pensions, allowances, superannuation, and employees accrue sick and annual leave (McDonald & Brownlee, 2001). Furthermore employees are able to seek union representation and are legally entitled to industrial action. McDonald and Brownlee (2001) assert that Fair Work Australia, established as an institution responsible for fixating minimum wage and resolving work related disputes, perpetuates the notion that Australia is in transition to become an egalitarian society with minimal class disparity.
Population in Canada continues to increase as per Statistics Canada (2013). To provide quality nursing services for such a population we need sufficient nursing workforce. According to Little (2007), by 2016, Canada will face a nursing shortage of 100,000 nurses. The major reasons for this being unemployment of immigrated internationally educated nurses in Canada and emigration of Canadian-educated nurses to countries like USA. According to College of Nurses of Ontario [CNO]a (2007), as stated in Blythe, J, et al. (2009), in 2007, 11% of registered nursing workforce in Ontario constitutes Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN). Most of the IENs are left unemployed after they migrate to Canada because of rigid requirements of language skills, licensure exams, variability in nursing education across countries etc. (Blythe et al., 2009). Between 1997 and 2000, of the 25 506 foreign-educated nurses applying for licensure in the USA, approximately 22% were Canadian applicants, most of whom were new graduates (Buchan et al. 2003 as in Hall et al., 2009). If immigration of IENs can be made more beneficial to Canada and Canadian nurses are provided better incentives to practice in Canada, then nursing shortage that we are currently facing can be avoided.
c, From 1 July 2009 , most Australian workplaces are governed by new system created by Fair Work Act 2009 , that will be administered by the Fair Work Ombudsman together with Fair Work Australia.
According to Little (2007), Canada is projecting a significant registered nurse (RN) shortage in the near future with a shortfall of over 100,000 by 2016 (Canadian Nurses Association [CNA] 2002). The main problem is that the process of becoming a registered nurse is more challenging and harder. As Zubeida Ramji, executive director of Toronto’s Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses (CARE), a support group that helps foreign-trained nurses return to practice, stated “The changes came about so
All organisations have to follow equality and diversity laws and make sure all their employees know the law and follow it. They are also responsible for investigating any claims that may be made by employees/employers. They will need to ensure that all policies and procedures were correctly followed. If as a result of an investigation it is found that there has been a breach of these laws they will need to follow all correct procAll organisations have to follow equality and diversity laws and make sure all their employees know the law and follow it. They are also responsible for investigating any claims that may be made by employees/employers. They will need to ensure that all policies and procedures were correctly followed. If as a result
In Malaysia, the registered nurses from the largest group of health care personal, providing health care services to the county’s population both in the public and private sectors. These nurses undergo three years of
All staff including new staff will be made aware of Employment entitlements at Fairworks Australia. https://www.fairwork.gov.au/how-we-will-help/templates-and-guides/fact-sheets/minimum-workplace-entitlements/introduction-to-the-national-employment-standards
Woolworths is committed to upholding human rights, not only with respect to its own employees but also for workers in its supply chain. Our Ethical Sourcing Policy encompasses
The key stakeholders affected by the replacement of the 457 visa with the TSS are trade unions and business employers/sponsor – of large corporations and small medium enterprises. Most Australian trade unions were sceptical of the 457 visa and received the new TSS readily. Caspersz (2015) posits that trade unions were concerned with and challenged the moral ethics by which overseas workers entered, lived and worked in Australia under the 457 visa. She argues that most overseas workers were significantly disadvantaged in the labour market because of the diversion from the fill of critical skill shortage to employment of cheap labour (Caspersz, 2015). Campbell and Tham (2014) note that most trade unions such as the Australian Industry Group criticize the 457 visa’s lack of practical requirement such as English proficiency and critical skill testing that relegates the process to a mere migration stunt. One evidence of diversion from 457 visa initial motive is the ban imposed on Australian fast food chains from recruiting foreign workers in March 2017 (Conifer, 2017). The temporary skill visa was meant to hire genuine critical skill candidates and not low skill candidates. However, this narrative has changed and some trade unions assume that the TSS will streamline the