A JOB is offering £4,400 for workers with no experience, but no one wants it.
The manager of a cleaning company in Sydney says they have been forced to raise salaries after struggling to find new cleaners to take on the job.
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Joy Vess, of Absolute Domestics, told the Daily Telegraph that her company has increased the hourly rate to £25, meaning a cleaner with no experience could earn more than £52,000.
She said: “I can see it’s making a difference now… the applicants are just delighted.
“Since mid-2021 I haven’t been able to get enough cleaners to service the business, in some areas I don’t sell at all – Bondi, Manly, I don’t advertise at all because I can’t get cleaners there.
“Nine months ago I brought the hourly rate to $35 and that didn’t fix it, so three weeks ago I raised it to $45 an hour.”
She added that despite the increase, she is still struggling to find staff for some areas.
She has also called on the government to allow international students to work more hours.
Meanwhile, she’s not the only one struggling to find workers amid Australia’s workforce shortage.
Companies in the country’s mining division have offered jobs with £80,000 starting salaries and £7,000 signing bonuses in a bid to find staff.
Positions available include car electricians in Queensland who could start with a salary of nearly £80,000 ($140,000).
The vacancies also include automation engineers, metallurgists and geologists – all with salaries between £57,000 and £73,000.
And some other companies have resorted to offering a £7,000 ($10,000) sign-up bonus and a £3,000 ($5,000) referral bonus.
And an Australian MP has urged fruit pickers to come forward to sort this season’s biggest crops.
Member of Parliament Anne Webster labeled the shortage of staff willing to take on the £4,000-a-month job as a “tragedy in the making”.
Ripe fruit is left on the ground to rot because of the lack of workers – and it could cost the country millions.