What is the difference between the short-term and long-term streams under the PALM scheme?
- Under the PALM scheme there are 2 cohorts of workers:
- short-term workers who can access a multi-year visa to return to Australia for placements of up to 9 months each year for 4 years
- long-term workers who can work in placements of between one and 4 years.
Does the PALM scheme replace the Seasonal Worker Programme and the Pacific Labour Scheme?
- The Seasonal Worker Programme and the Pacific Labour Scheme were consolidated into the single PALM scheme in July 2023, with a single program deed and guidelines.
What is the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme?
- The Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme allows eligible Australian businesses to hire workers from 9 Pacific island countries and Timor-Leste when there are not enough local workers available.
- PALM scheme employers can hire workers to fill unskilled, low-skilled or semi-skilled positions for short-term placements of up to 9 months or long-term placements of between one and 4 years.
- Short-term and long-term workers can be employed in all regional and rural postcodes, except for agriculture and agriculture-related food product manufacturing, where there
Detailed industry assessment: Aquaculture
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Labour mobility in Pacific island countries
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