Special Report: Biggest employers

The growing skills shortage is forcing more and more WA employers to look overseas to secure skilled workers.

Chantal Haskett says companies need to stop trying to compete with the resources sector by offering their staff more money.

Western Australia is riding high on the mining and resources boom but it’s the construction, retail and health sectors that are pulling the most workers.

WHETHER a matter of corporate social responsibility or a condition for an operating licence, a tactical stop-gap measure or just the right thing to do – the adoption of measures to improve indigenous