Job Outsourcing Scene in Oz

eva-usa · #1 (**permalink**) 28th October 2009, 04:59 PM

Freinds,

Hows the job outsourcing scene in Australia? Perticularly IT Jobs outsourcing to countries like India or China.

Is it as bad as US? Are there any laws in Australia to prevent it or its open like US. In US more they outsource more they can cut the cost & save more money on taxes.

Is it really BAD in oz??

amaslam · #2 (**permalink**) 28th October 2009, 09:03 PM

Hi Eva:

It depends on the type of job. The following types are outsourced to India (not so much to China):

QA
Development
Technical Support

There are no laws to prevent this, but AU does have stronger labour laws that if you lay off a person (called retrenched here) you do have to pay them some additional money.

BAD is such a subjective word so I can't say it's BAD. It just happens here as well.

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Originally Posted by eva-usa

Freinds,

Hows the job outsourcing scene in Australia? Perticularly IT Jobs outsourcing to countries like India or China.

Is it as bad as US? Are there any laws in Australia to prevent it or its open like US. In US more they outsource more they can cut the cost & save more money on taxes.

Is it really BAD in oz??

eva-usa · #3 (**permalink**) 28th October 2009, 11:00 PM

BAD in terms of - Replace local labor with offshore labor for cost cutting or cost saving ....

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Originally Posted by amaslam

Hi Eva:

It depends on the type of job. The following types are outsourced to India (not so much to China):

QA
Development
Technical Support

There are no laws to prevent this, but AU does have stronger labour laws that if you lay off a person (called retrenched here) you do have to pay them some additional money.

BAD is such a subjective word so I can't say it's BAD. It just happens here as well.

amaslam · #4 (**permalink**) 28th October 2009, 11:21 PM

Yes, they do that. But that's not considered unusual or BAD. Not every company and not at any one time. Depends if the local business considers it worthwhile. My company has sent some functions to India but also done hiring locally as they have found they need to do both.

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Originally Posted by eva-usa

BAD in terms of - Replace local labor with offshore labor for cost cutting or cost saving ....