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The challenge for a Labor federal government is to support expansive labour migration in a way that does not produce a race to the bottom in labour standards.

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content Migrant workers in Sydney are being systematically underpaid and a union analysis of more than 3000 foreign-language job ads reveals offers of illegally low wages as low as $8 an hour are rife. The analysis of Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Nepalese and Portuguese ads from December 2019 until last August in NSW found 88 per cent of the ads in community websites, Facebook pages and media outlets offered wages below industry minimums. Unions NSW...