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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 is using the data to push for the labour movement to be given powers to enter workplaces and inspect books for underpayment to complement the work of the industrial umpire. This plan was considered and rejected in the federal government’s recent industrial overhaul that instead racheted up penalties for employers.
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