Organisations and unions across Australia are calling for whistleblower protections for migrant workers who report exploitation.
A coalition of more than 40 legal service providers, unions, ethnic community peak bodies, churches and national organisations is calling on Minister for Home Affairs Clare O’Neil to urgently bring widespread migrant worker exploitation out of the shadows.
Led by the Migrant Justice Institute and Human Rights Law Centre, the Breaking the Silence proposal – co-authored by a UNSW Sydney academic – urges the Federal government to establish whistleblower protections that would enable migrant workers to report exploitation without risking their visa.
The Albanese Government’s wholesale review of Australia’s migration system will report in April, as the Government is devising strategies for faster and greater migrant intake.
With hundreds of thousands of international students, skilled workers and backpackers arriving or returning to the country, there is a historic opportunity and urgent need to implement these reforms within the next six months.
Additionally, from 1 July, the Government will reinstate limits on international student work hours, putting tens of thousands of underpaid students at risk of visa cancellation if they speak up for working extra hours in order to earn the equivalent of minimum wage.
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