Just when you thought the use and abuse of foreign workers couldn’t get any worse, the former head of the ACCC and chair of the Migrant Workers Taskforce has revealed that up to one third of the international students studying in Australia on working visas are being underpaid by their employers, with businesses owned by migrants from the same ethnic group “a particular problem”. From The Australian:
Former consumer watchdog Allan Fels, who is leading the government’s Migrant Workers Taskforce, said he believed one-third of international students were being exploited, with an unpaid wages bill in the billions… [He estimated] up to 145,000 students on working visas are being underpaid by employers…
