DILI, 05 april 2022 (TATOLI) – The Government of Timor-Leste through the State Secretary for Vocational Training and Employment (SEFOPE) will send 22 Timorese workers to employ in three different companies in Australia.
SEFOPE’s National Director of Labor for overseas, Filomeno Soares said it is required that 22 workers who will go to work in Australia in april should demonstrate working credibility. The worker must show good behavior. This brilliant performance will allow the companies to demand more Timorese workers.
The 22 Timorese workers will benefit from the Australia Seasonal Worker Program (SWP). They will travel to Australia in early april.
“This is a brilliant opportunity and the candidate should not take any action to be out of the system. Australian Companies want to provide job opportunities for more than 11,000 Timorese workers. It is allowing workers to work for the SEFOPE ready pool system,” Filomeno explained in Becora, this tuesday after signing the letter.
The worker’s families were dealt with by Mutual agreement between Australian companies.
He explained that the 22 workers will be assigned to different companies in Australia such as three workers in Top of the Crop company, and three (3) male workers who will depart on april 6, 2022.
In addition, nine (9) workers composed of five (5) men and four (4) women will work in Connect Group/AAA companies. The workers will be flying to Australia on 8 april 2022.
The last company, Ceres Farms has contracted ten (10) male workers and will depart on 11 april 2022.
Based on SEFOPE’s data, it said that from january to march 2022, there are 451 Timorese workers who have participated in pre-departure briefing (GDP). The Seasonal Worker Program has applied for a total of 341 workers composed of 258 men and 83 women.
The Pacific Labor Scheme (PLS) also has applied 110 Timorese workers composed of 39 men and 71 women.
The GDP numbers show there are 316 workers who have been dispatched since the first three months of the year consisting of SWP with a total of 214 workers (165 men and 49 women), and PLS with 102 workers 66 men and 36 females.
The data also states that since the beginning of this year there are 60 workers composed of 49 men and 11 women who have been repatriated due to the contract period being over. Thus the total number of TL workers in Australia is 1,420 workers composed of 1017 men and 403 women.
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