📋 Tender Overview
The Australian Government is working to improve occupational mobility making it easier for Australians in licenced occupations to move where their skills are needed and enable businesses and consumers to access skilled workers more quickly.Occupational mobility is one of the areas of focus for the whole-of-government Deregulation Taskforce announced by the Government in June 2020 as part of the COVID-19 economic recovery.To improve occupational mobility draft legislation to amend the Mutual Recognition Act to implement a uniform scheme of automatic mutual recognition AMR has been developed by the Commonwealth with the States and Territories.AMR will allow a person who is licenced or registered for an occupation in one jurisdiction to be considered registered to perform the same activities in another without going through further application processes or paying additional registration fees.AMR will make it easier and less expensive for businesses tradespeople and other professionals to operate across jurisdictions while maintaining high standards of consumer protection and worker and public health and safety.Submissions are open on the exposure draft AMR legislation until Friday 12 February 2021.
