chloejdudley

Hi, I was contacted by my employer today regarding the working restrictions on my 417 visa. Hopefully I can summarise this quickly. Im from the uk and I applied for my first working holiday visa in January 2014, it as granted and I entered Australia on 3rd march 2014, shortly after I started working for a company in Melbourne (we'll call company x) and I stayed with them for 5 months until September 2014, when I moved to complete my regional work, I finished this early December 2014 and then applied for a second working holiday visa. The second working holiday visa was granted on 9th December 2014. I then travelled around and did not work again until February 2015, I worked with company x again for 2 weeks, then on 18th February 2015 I went back to England for 4 weeks. I came back to Australia on 18th march 2015 and commenced work with company x on 25th march 2015 where I am currently still employed. It is my understanding that I can stay in Australia for 24 months from my entry date now that I have had my second visa granted (so 3 march 2014 to 3 march 2016), I also understand that I can work for an employer for only up to 6 months on each visa. And today my employers legal team got in touch to say because I applied and was subsequently granted my second visa in December 2014 that the work I did in February 2015 actually counts towards my second visa and not my first visa (as I originally thought). Is this correct? Its not really a big deal to me as I plan on moving in September 2015 but I would just like to know for clarification. I assumed the first visa ran until 3 march 2015 then the second one would commence on that date also, meaning the condition of working for 6 months with one employer would start again on that date. Thanks in advance sorry its quite lengthy! CJ.