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Restaurant industry spooked by vow to crack down on immigrant workers
2025-05-02 21:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Restaurateur Amanda Scott says the process of employing skilled immigrant workers is slow, expensive, and maddeningly bureaucratic.The cafe owner fears the process will become even harder as both major parties vow to reduce immigration levels if they win the upcoming federal election.The Kedron Farm House owner said few Australians were studying cookery, with venues becoming increasingly dependent on immigrant workers.She said this could be partly due to the "Gordon Ramsay effect", with Australians viewing hospitality as a brutal, difficult, and unfriendly career path.Ms Scott said overseas chefs had been filling those roles instead, but the worker visa approvals process was becoming increasingly onerous.She said skilled visa applications were now taking several years to be processed while costing upwards of $8,000 in paperwork."It was successful until this year, but now something's happened with both sides of politics using this as an election ploy," Ms Scott said."It's such a disince... [ more ]
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