A labour market is the commercial environment in which people exchange their work for income and where employers and workers ‘trade’ on the demand for, and supply of, skills.  If you do not have skilled employment or an offer of skilled employment, your work experience must have been gained in a comparable labour market in order for you to claim points.  Work experience is assessed as being in a comparable labour market if it was undertaken in one of the following countries by:

• a citizen or permanent resident of that country; or
• a person who had the lawful authority to work in that country.