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Farm workers in Australia are exposed to widespread wage theft and exploitation, a survey shows. News by James Hall Premium Content Subscriber only A Taiwanese foreign worker says she was exposed to such horrific rates of underpayment on an Australian farm she was forced to eat from public rubbish bins just to survive. Kate Hsu said she was paid just $4 an hour picking oranges on a South Australian farm as the disturbing rates of wage theft and exploitation were revealed in a new report. The study found an alarming majority of fruit and vegetable pickers i...

Advocates have decried how difficult it can be for temporary foreign workers to get vaccines, despite cramped living spaces and workplaces that make it hard to prevent transmission of the virus.

Advocates have decried how difficult it can be for temporary foreign workers to get vaccines, despite cramped living spaces and workplaces that make it hard to prevent transmission of the virus. 

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 10:20 am on April 20, 2021 | 4 comments As we know, the hospitality and horticultural industries are currently lobbying the government hard to allow easier access to migrant workers. We are told that these industries are experiencing chronic labour shortages and that without access to migrant workers, restaurants and cafes will be forced to close and farms will lose valuable crops. One interesting aspect of these claims is that the simplest solution to so-called ‘labour shortages’ – offering better pay and conditions to attract local worke...

Quebec urged to list burnout as an 'occupational disease' in update to workplace safety laws Labour groups and medical specialists want burnout categorized as an "occupational disease," meaning it would be considered the same way lung cancer is for construction workers exposed to asbestos. Social Sharing