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monash大学呼吁政府取消烹饪为紧缺职业
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越来越紧的移民政策让很多有此念头的人不得不考虑一些旁门左道，比如改读烹饪专业。Monash大学的研究小组发现，这一现象已经到了危险的地步，很容易导致工资的恶性竞争，呼吁政府应该考虑取消其紧缺职业头衔。
Bob Birrell研究员说，很多报读烹饪专业的准移民大多来自低收入国家，他们为了获得永居（PR），不惜降低身价，这同时也给了雇主剥削的机会。
目前烹饪已经成为会计之后第二热门留学生专业，然而一旦学生拿到签证后，很少有人能真正加入厨师行列。
今年一月，联邦政府调整过澳洲紧缺职业列表，烹饪榜上无名。但是如果学生能够工作900小时，并得到雇主担保，他/她依然能够顺利获得永居签证。问题是，所谓的工作不一定是厨师，可以是厨房工或者服务员。
Residency visas gained through kitchen door
http://www.smh.com.au/national/residency-visas-gained-through-kitchen-door-20090331-9i9y.html?page=-1
Malcolm Knox
April 1, 2009
A LOOPHOLE in Australia's skilled migration program has led to an eightfold increase in overseas students enrolling in cooking courses as a means of achieving permanent residency and a danger of a "race to the bottom" in wages, according to a Monash University study released today.
The study, "The Cooking-Immigration Nexus", describes the current system as a "mess" and calls on the Federal Government to remove cooking from the list of skills eligible for employer-sponsored permanent residency visas.
"Permanent residence is extremely attractive to people from low-wage countries," said Bob Birrell, one of the study's authors and co-director of the Monash Centre for Population and Urban Research. "People who are desperate for that [permanent residence] prize are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that, and the current system is almost an incitement for them to go to employers and undercut the going rate, and of course for employers to exploit this as well."
Between 2004 and 2008 the number of overseas students enrolled in cookery courses rose from 1019 to 8242, according to the study. Total enrolments of overseas students in trade courses trebled from 65,120 in 2005 to 173,432 in 2008.
Cooking has become the second-highest employment category, behind accounting, of "onshore" trained overseas students wishing to gain permanent residence. However, due to the low regulation of many of these courses, "relatively few actually work as trade-level cooks once they obtain permanent residence" and there remains a shortage of skilled cooks in Australia, says the study, authored by Bob Birrell, Ernest Healy and Bob Kinnaird and published today in the Monash journal People and Place.
The "Government should restrict the migrant flow of cooks," the study says. "It has been reluctant to act because it and many state governments are anxious to preserve the overseas student education industry. These governments have refused to acknowledge the reality, which is that the rapidly growing enrolments are more about selling permanent entry visas."
The number of former overseas cookery students who received permanent residence increased from 951 in 2005-06 to 3251 in 2007-08. This was 41 per cent more than the number of Australian apprentice completions in cooking, 2305 in 2007.
In January the Government published a list of occupations in which Australia has a critical skills shortage, and cooking was not included. But instead, overseas students in cooking can achieve permanent residence by working 900 hours for an employer, then having that employer sponsor their migration by working for them for another 12 months. This can be as menial as kitchenhand and waiting work.
"Leaving cookery off the list was an impressive step," Dr Birrell said, "but it assumes that employers won't take advantage of people desperate to … gain the sponsorship."
With rising local unemployment, the authors say the Government should usher more out-of-work Australians into retraining as cooks, rather than issuing more visas.
"Given the decline in the workforce in some traditional trades," the authors write, "especially in manufacturing, it is important that trade opportunities be opened in the service sector - including cooking". |
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自己动手安装15款 kluger 原厂towbar (2016-9-11) danielz158 
发表于 2008-12-18 07:19
，附目前的CSL，有签证优先权还是不错的
