Companies are only meant to use the visa to fill a need/gap where there are no local workers to fill a job.
The minimum wage for the visa is $40,000 USD ($53k AUD).
What companies are doing however, is hiring foreign workers (typically from India for IT based roles) and paying them $40k rather than the local average wage of $75-100k.
They are using the visa as a method to decrease wage costs to almost half of what a local worker would cost.
I believe companies are complaining as there is a possibility that there will be less access to cheap foreign labour and they'll have to start paying true costs for workers.
The minimum wage for the visa is $40,000 USD ($53k AUD).
What companies are doing however, is hiring foreign workers (typically from India for IT based roles) and paying them $40k rather than the local average wage of $75-100k.
They are using the visa as a method to decrease wage costs to almost half of what a local worker would cost.
I believe companies are complaining as there is a possibility that there will be less access to cheap foreign labour and they'll have to start paying true costs for workers.