Migrant wage theft entrenched across Aussie economy

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Fairfax’s Adele Ferguson continued her four year campaign against wage theft over the weekend, which mostly involves migrants on temporary visas:

At 7-Eleven thousands of workers were students on visas who were underpaid…

Since the 7-Eleven scandal there have been many more companies caught up in underpayment issues including Domino’s, Caltex, Retail Food Group, Pizza Hut, bubble tea operator Chatime and a string of high profile restaurants to name a few.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.