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Laws cracking down on the particular skilled foreign worker work permit program have passed the fewer house, despite signs brand new no doubt Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was heading towards a major policy shift.
The opposition tried to delay the particular vote and claimed Mr Rudd's decision to push ahead with the changes as data the new leader had ''failed the very first test of decency''.
The bill   requiring businesses to prove they have attemptedto look for local workers just before turning to the 457 visa scheme   passed by the narrowest involving margins, 73 votes to 72.
Former prime minister Julia Gillard experienced made the crackdown about 457 visas a key element of her election year agenda in a wager to boost Labor's connection with Australia's working course and unions. The bill incorporates extra powers for Sensible Work inspectors to investigate claimed rorts.
But business groups along with the Coalition accused Ms Gillard employing inflammatory language as your woman campaigned in western Sydney a few months ago with a vow to ensure foreign workers did not push Aussies to the back of the work opportunities queue.
Labor MPs won assistance for the measures from Vegetables deputy leader Adam Bandt and crossbench MPs Bob Katter, Craig Thomson, Andrew Wilkie and Tony Windsor.
Steal Oakeshott and Peter Slipper voted with all the Coalition against the bill.
So that you can secure support from crossbench MPs, the federal government agreed to amendments making obvious employers must advertise in the newspaper for local personnel up to four months before applying to hire people under the 457 scheme. Modifications also reduce exemptions towards the new rule.
Unions accepted the passage of the laws and regulations, which also extend the time any 457 visa holder has to uncover another job if they are sacked.
''It's a vital step forward in die 12ZollHaupt repariert wurde protecting the job security of Australian staff,'' said Dave Noonan, construction team national secretary for the Building Forestry Mining and Energy Union.
''It also offers some more protection for employees who are here on 457 visas.''
The true secret changes to the existing guidelines mean that:
Employers must right now prove they have advertised in a newspaper before hiring from internationally.
Employers who want to use a 457 visa must have advertised in Australia within just four months prior to a sponsoring a different worker.
Only in the farming sector can an existing company hire existing staff who are already working for them.
Where there is a retrenchment or a redundancy, a position need to be advertised for the four calendar month period before it can be filled.
A worker on a 457 visa who seems to lose their job will now possess 90 days to find a new attract, instead of the current 28
Mr Rudd had fuelled expectations of a possible policy shift simply by declaring in a speech about Wednesday that he would avoid ''things that drive business plus Labor apart''.
Crossbench MPs feared a backflip while debate on the bill was omitted from the daily plan for Thursday's sitting of the House associated with Representatives   the final session ahead of the expected election.
It had been essential in a draft list dispersed on Wednesday night.
Your updated notice paper relegated the debate to the 11th get of government business.
But the federal government later scrambled to make the 457 visa costs the main priority for Thursday's seated.
After Mr Rudd made a job opening statement to Parliament at afternoon, new Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese moved to hold up other bills so the migration laws and regulations could be debated first.
Resistance immigration spokesman Scott Morrison complained this union driven bill would certainly ''choke the 457 system'' and Mr Rudd's initial priority was to ''attack'' skilled migration.
Mister Morrison said the new Treasurer, Chris Bowen, acquired declared in his previous job as immigration minister which government had already arranged the right probabilmente lunico posto negli Stati Uniti che ha qualche in azione 72 balance on the working permit scheme.
''The unions were managing the Labor party last night and the unions are still going the Labor party now,'' Mr Morrison said.
''This is a federal that's not only lost it's way; it's lost the particular plot.''
Mr Albanese said it would be a standard maintenance 263 procedural motion. At one stage Mr Morrison unsuccesfully made an effort to delay a vote by means of calling for independent MP Deprive Oakeshott to give his valedictory speech.
Prior, Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt said he or she was concerned about the 457 bill's removals from the daily program of economic, but the government had suggested him it would in fact always be debated.
  
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