---
title: "Employer nomination pack: labour market testing and Core Skills evidence"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/immigration-and-migration-law/nomination-labour-market-testing-checklist"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a30-nomination-labour-market-testing-checklist"
area_id: "A30"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A30-T1-R4", "A30-T1-R3"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Employer nomination pack: labour market testing and Core Skills evidence

> A checklist for a Skills in Demand (subclass 482) Core Skills nomination: the two advertisements, the exemptions on the Home Affairs page, and the evidence the Core Skills stream page asks for.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/immigration-and-migration-law/nomination-labour-market-testing-checklist  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Immigration & Migration Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/immigration-and-migration-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia.

## When to use it

Use when preparing an employer nomination for a Skills in Demand visa, or the skills-assessment documents that go with a Core Skills stream application. Read the labour agreement if the nomination is under one.

## Used for these tasks

- [Draft an employer-nomination and sponsored-visa cover pack](https://ailawframework.com/practice/immigration-and-migration-law/draft-an-employer-nomination-and-sponsored-visa-cover-pack.md)
- [Draft a skills-assessment cover letter and competency narrative](https://ailawframework.com/practice/immigration-and-migration-law/draft-a-skills-assessment-cover-letter-and-competency-narrative.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may turn the sponsor's advertisements and the applicant's documents into this checklist; the practitioner decides whether an exemption applies and settles every sentence that will be lodged.

**AI may:**

- List the two advertisements against the content, medium and four-week tests on the labour market testing page
- Flag a redundancy or retrenchment in the nominated occupation in the four months before lodgement
- List the Core Skills stream documents the visa page names, including a skills-assessment reference number where one is mandatory

**AI must not:**

- Must not decide that an international trade obligation exemption applies, or that no exemption applies
- Must not write the competency narrative, or state that a skills assessment is or is not mandatory, unless the practitioner has checked the instrument the visa page cites
- Must not state a Core Skills Income Threshold dollar amount; the Core Skills stream page does not state one

**The lawyer checks:**

- The stream is Core Skills, Specialist Skills, Employer Sponsored 494, or a labour agreement, because the testing rules differ
- Each advertisement ran in Australia, in English, for at least four weeks inside the four months before nomination, or since the redundancy if that rule applies
- Salary is in the advertisement if annual earnings are lower than AUD96,400, and the medium is one the page accepts
- Any skills assessment required by the page was commenced before the visa application, inside the three-year period the page states

## Authorities

- [Department of Home Affairs, Labour market testing (two advertisements from 11 December 2023; content, medium and timing; international trade obligation exemptions; alternative submissions)](https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/employing-and-sponsoring-someone/sponsoring-workers/nominating-a-position/labour-market-testing)
- [Department of Home Affairs, Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) Core Skills stream (CSOL, AMSR and CSIT, one year of work, skills assessment, English, stay of up to 4 years)](https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/skills-in-demand-visa-subclass-482/core-skills-stream)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/immigration-and-migration-law/nomination-labour-market-testing-checklist and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*