Let's get the facts on the table. Despite Labor's cynical rhetoric it runs an expansive 457 temporary foreign workers visa intake into this country that in January this year totalled 105,325 workers, ...

Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten has responded to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's 457 visa reform by announcing his own plan to crack down on those "rorting" the system. Included in Shorten's ...

The flood of foreign visas during Opposition leader Bill Shorten’s time as workplace minister in the Gillard government also extended the program to 650 so-called professions including union officials ...

Employers will be legally required to search locally to fill low-skilled job vacancies before taking on temporary foreign workers on 457 visas, in a crackdown Labor strategists had hoped would ease ...

The Gillard government’s plans to substantially reform Australia’s temporary migrant worker program indicates that Labor is ramping up its pitch to be the party of Australian workers. With industrial ...

Labor's proposed reforms to the controversial 457 visa scheme will require bosses to make every effort to employ Australians before resorting to foreign workers. Labor's proposed reforms to the ...

Labor's immigration spokesman Tony Burke said yesterday a package of reforms to the controversial 457 visa system would ensure that vacancies in areas of genuine skills shortages were filled more ...

Suddenly 457 visas are back on the political agenda in a big way, with Labor today unveiling a set of “reform” proposals to make it harder and more expensive for businesses to use foreign workers. And ...

The Australian Labor Party wants to crack down on the 457 skilled visa program by forcing businesses to look harder locally to fill vacant jobs. Opposition minister Bill Shorten has detailed his party ...

In a bid to shake up the 457 visa program, labor has proposed that the employers will be required to advertise job opportunities for a minimum of four weeks. Federal Labor wants employers to advertise ...