From 29 October 2023, accredited employers cannot use 90-day trial periods in employment agreements when hiring people on an Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV).
This includes Job Checks submitted before 29 October 2023 but assessed on and after this date.
For on-going Job Check application
If an employer has a Job Check application underway and the Immigration have not yet made a decision about it, employers need to:
- Review the Job Check application and make sure the employment agreement does not include a trial period.
- If the employment agreement includes a trial period, please upload an updated employment agreement that does not include a trial period as soon as possible.
Immigration requires employers to do this before 1 November to avoid issues regarding the application.
The Job Check application can be declined or will take longer to process if the employment agreement does not reflect the said change.
To upload an updated employment agreement
To upload an updated employment agreement or inform the Immigration they are working on it and need more time, they should log in to their Immigration Online and do the following steps:
- On the Employ migrants page, go to the Manage job checks section.
- Select Manage existing job checks, then go to the Submitted job check applications section.
- Find the relevant application.
- In the Options drop-down list, select View application.
- Go to the Correspondence section, then select Add/Update information.
- The Add or update information page displays.
- Select Change of circumstances in the Reason drop-down list.
- Enter the Description of the document. For example, ‘an updated employment agreement’. Employers can write anything here to help the Immigration Officer. This free text box can be used to request more time if necessary.
- Upload the updated employment agreement or other correspondence and submit.
Note: If the Job Check is approved, the Add/Update information option will not appear.
