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"From working 20 to 30 hours of unpaid overtime each week in one of Australia’s
fanciest restaurants to picking fruit while being exposed to dangerous
chemicals for less than $10 an hour, the underpayment of migrant workers is
rife.
The Grattan Institute’s new report,
Short-changed: How to stop the
exploitation of migrant workers in Australia, show a broad pattern.
We’ve used two nationally representative Australian Bureau of Statistics
surveys of employees and employers –
Characteristics of Employment and
Employee Earnings and Hours – to find out whether employees are paid below
the national minimum hourly wage in Australia, currently $21.38 an hour or
$26.73 an hour for casuals.
We estimate that recent migrants – those who arrived in Australia within the
past five years – are twice as likely to be underpaid as migrants who have been
in Australia for at least 10 years, and those born here."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
