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05/04/2022

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28/03/2022

Questions raised over government scheme that left foreign workers with just $100 take-home pay

Everywhere you go it seems people are talking about the cost of living, including grocery prices — but not so many of us are talking about the cost of producing those groceries.

Many might be shocked to learn that foreign workers on Australian farms have been left with as little as $100 in their pay packets after a week picking fruit.

Talk about a lack of wage growth.

There's plenty of talk about the cost living at the moment, including groceries — but not so many of us are talking about the cost of producing those groceries, Kath Sullivan writes.

18/03/2022

Foreign farm workers left with just $100 after week’s work as employer makes major deductions

One of Australia's largest labour hire firms oversaw foreign workers pocketing just $100 per week after it deducted hundreds of dollars in additional costs.

That was despite the company's chief executive telling a Senate committee the workers earned more than expected under the Australian government's Pacific Labour Scheme.

Two Samoan whistleblowers have also told of how they felt "punished" for giving earlier evidence against the labour hire firm.

A Senate committee hears one of Australia's largest labour hire firms oversaw Pacific Labour Scheme workers pocketing just $100 a week after it deducted hundreds of dollars in additional costs.

20/12/2021

"The lack of any binding labour mobility provisions were a bone of contention at the time PACER Plus was signed."

The Government has marked the first anniversary of a polarising Pacific trade deal with talk of expanding a seasonal worker scheme into a more sweeping ‘preference’ in our immigration settings For those in need of a reminder about the precarious state of the Pacific’s Covid-hit economies, on M...

02/12/2021

"Pacific Island meat workers on $9 per hours after hundreds of dollars are deducted from their weekly pay"

Contracts between Pacific islander meat workers and labour hire firm Regional Workforce Management Pty Ltd show some workers are left with just $310 from their weekly pay of $753.

26/11/2021

"farmers are crying out for more workers while industry and government are under pressure to address structural issues in the existing schemes that have enabled worker mistreatment and wage theft."

The promise of labour mobility in the Australian government’s new temporary migrant labour scheme is mostly for employers, not workers.

06/10/2021

Article University of Western Australian academic, Cecilia Leong-Salobir discusses Australia's food history

True to the Land explores the history of the Australian continent through our diverse and changing cooking and eating habits.

20/09/2021

Get behind our action to give Pacific Island workers a fair go!

Changes to Australia's Pacific worker programs have been welcomed but questions remain over the pathway to permanent residency.