Eligibility to be an approved business sponsor for visa subclass 457

While the Australian government has visa subclass 457 to address skill shortages in Australia. It needs to ensure that the business or employer who would like to sponsor the employees under visa subclass 457 has some certain qualities and meet some requirements set by the Australian government. That includes:

• The business or employer needs to be a "good employer". A good employer from the Australian government's perspective means that the employer provides jobs for local people; Australian Permanent Residence or Australian citizen.
• Apart from employ local people, the business needs to provide training for them as well. That is to up-skill and to ensure that they are more productive and more marketable. Just in case if one day business went down, at least those employees have enough skills to look for jobs so that they won't become government liabilities and become a burden to CentreLink.
• The business has financial viable. Simply put, it means the business is financially strong to employ more staff. For example, the market rate for a restaurant manager is around $55,000 (+ 9.50% super ) per year and so forth. It also depends on location of the restaurant. That is just an example. If the business cannot afford to pay at that rate, well...it is not financially viable to sponsor someone to work under visa subclass 457. In other words, the business bank statement needs to look pretty.

So, before any businesses want to jump onto the visa subclass 457 bandwagon, please ensure that you do a bit of checking first. Not all businesses or employers would get approved to sponsor some employees for visa subclass 457. Do a bit of research before you make any important decisions.

Employ and sponsor some employees under visa subclass 457, it is a big responsibility.