Many Australian businesses rely on employing skilled migrants to
fill positions that are difficult to recruit from the Australian
labour market. The types of visas that employers can sponsor
skilled migrants for include the Temporary Skill Shortage visa
(subclass 482), the Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186)
and the Skilled Employer Regional visa (subclass 491). These
employer sponsored visas require the employer to sponsor the
employee and involve the employer paying for a proportion of the
costs required to sponsor that employee.
Employers may also have employees working for them that are on
visas that do not require the employer's support to obtain,
such as the Working Holiday (subclass 417) visa, or the student
(subclass 500) visa. However, when the Working Holiday visa or
student visa is due to expire, it is at that stage that the
employee will often turn to the employer for assistance in the form
of sponsoring them for an employer sponsored visa.
