There isn't a job shortage, there’s a shortage of adequate pay

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MMLCG on May 19th, 2021 at 01:00 UTC »

We have a similar situation here in Australia. Our international borders are closed to non-Aust residents, and normally our farmers hire staff/ labour from Pacific nations (Fiji, Samoa etc) and Backpackers with poor pay and conditions that the Australian job seekers do not accept. Now that the borders are closed, the farmers are saying we have no staff, no one will work for us, we need assistance from the Govt to survive, we are going to go bankrupt.... or they could just pay local staff a fair wage and normal conditions...

theimpossiblequiz on May 19th, 2021 at 02:13 UTC »

People literally can't afford these low paying jobs anymore.

4FriedChickens_Coke on May 19th, 2021 at 03:15 UTC »

In Canada employers claim this all the time.

Step one: post a job with ridiculous requirements and horrible pay.

Step two: whine to the government that you're having difficulty filling the role.

Step three: apply to the Temporary Foreign Worker program (TFWP).

Step four: get someone from overseas who'll work their asses off no matter what with little recourse of resisting your ridiculous demands. If they act up they can be sent back to their home country and most likely blacklisted from the TFWP.

Step five: keep wages depressed, circumvent regulations requiring employee benefits/protections, and profit.