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Businesses typically rely on skilled migrants to fill up to half of the jobs available in the sector, but the COVID-19 shutdown has shut it down – ICT temporary work visas fell 50 percent last year compared to pre-pandemic levels – and the global race for tech talent is sending paychecks to sky. “We failed to keep up with demand,” says new ACS CEO Chris Vein Australian Financial Overview . “The domestic pipeline is not pumping enough technological talent. We need more than 60,000 new technology workers every year to meet the demand, but we only produce 10,000 technology graduates and postgraduates every year. “In theory, we would try to fill that gap with foreign talent, but we can’t and we may not be able to catch up for two, three or five years. Australia is competing with the US, Israel, every other country in the world for this talent.” ACS revealed that the federal government is struggling to find anything close to the 1900 cyber experts they need to support the...

A former Qantas baggage handler has exposed the chaos behind the scenes as the airline struggles to save its sinking reputation with travelers experiencing long delays and flight cancellations. The man who chose not to be named claimed that after 1,800 baggage handlers were laid off during the Covid-19 period and work was outsourced to third-party contractors, baggage was left in rooms for weeks and even planes broke down. “Yeah, when the pandemic hit, we got JobKeeper for a while and were given enforced redundancy,” he told Nine’s Today Show. ‘Many men don’t want to go. Many older men with more than 35, 30 years experience, they don’t know how to apply for jobs online. So it affects older people. An unnamed former Qantas baggage handler said the airline had suffered since it fired its experienced ground crew and replaced them with inexperienced contract workers. The former Qantas employee said morale plummeted after experienced baggage ...

A worker at an outsourcing firm Qantas has registered to replace Aussie staff has claimed the national carrier lost ‘one in 10’ baggage bags – although the company vehemently denies that figure. The ‘spirit of Australia’ was brought to justice by the Transport Workers Union in late 2020 when it was ruled that the airline had illegally fired nearly 2,000 baggage handlers, cleaners and ground staff before shifting their jobs to foreign-owned providers including Swissport. The Swiss company has since been forced to seek employment firms, some of which are not aviation-specific, to manage worker shortages for Qantas and Jetstar flights – a decision that infuriated company staff who accused them of being poorly trained and up to 10 percent of all misplaced luggage. “I would tell everyone, don’t check-in bags when you fly with Qantas now, or even better if you can avoid it, don’t fly Qantas at all,” an anonymous Swissport worker told...