Adland thrown government lifeline, with four-year visas to help cover skills shortage
The Media Federation of Australia (MFA) and Communications Council have welcomed the introduction of a five-year labour agreement for the advertising industry.
Under the Advertising Industry Labour Agreement (AILA), approved businesses in the industry will be able to sponsor overseas workers for roles that cannot be filled by the local market.
MFA CEO Sophie Madden said while the industry supports the local market, we didn’t have the numbers to properly resource the industry.
What “roles that can’t be filled”? What rubbish. When “Ad-Land” stops its strict hiring policy of employees having to be 18-30 years old who’ll work 14 hour days for 1990 salaries, they’ll find there’s ample talent available. Why the industry has to absorb more of this endless conga-line of failed cockney blaggers who couldn’t crack a job back in the UK, is anyone’s guess.
#VisasForGeezers
this is prejudiced nonsense.
we need overseas talent for two key reasons, Structural and Competitive.
Structural: the industry doesn’t invest in enough graduate and entry level talent (mainly because clients won’t fund them) Combine this with the natural attrition of talent leaving the industry, the significant losses our industry has from talent moving overseas & the challenges that the industry has in importing talent from other related industries within Australia and we need an annual influx of overseas talent purely to fill the gaps.
Competitive: agencies succeed or die on the back of the quality of the people working in them and the industry is results driven and highly competitive. Leaders and managers should have the right to find the best possible talent to work for them to give them a competitive advantage and to allow them to meet the needs of their clients. It’s good for their companies and clients if they have access to a larger talent pool and it’s good for our industry to be able to bring in the best people from around the world to add to the talent we already have here.
Is this really the time to publish racial vitriol like this? And from a person lacking the courage to put their name to such bigotry!
Good one Bob. Love to be an Aussie under your stewardship. Literal evidence of why you’d be wise to employ ‘foreigners’ over unskilled, out of their depth clowns, and eventually turn that skills gap around, bringing through a viable internationally capable workforce. I think we’re unlikely to see Bob in the mix when we get there though…
Technically xenophobic not racist, so permissible.
I agree Nick. I had a post countering his post that somehow didn’t make it through the screening.