‘Exploitation’: Workers cheated out of $3.18bn

Bombshell report reveals $3bn worker rip-off

Sham contracting, falsified pay slips and unpaid super are just some of the ways Aussie employers are ripping off one group of workers.

Fears, rorts, and exploitation: 10,000 workers in Australia expose a $3.2 billion problem

A major new survey reveals widespread migrant worker exploitation, underpayment and insecure work.

‘Exploitation’: Workers cheated out of $3.18bn

Sham contracting, falsified pay slips and unpaid super are just some of the ways Aussie employers are ripping off one group of workers.

A survey of 10,000 migrants reveals exploitation at work is the norm

A 28-year-old international student from Pakistan took a job as a chef in Queensland. His employer paid a flat hourly rate that was well below the legal minimum, with no payslips. When he eventually left, his employer hired the next new arrival. “It is like an ecosystem,” he told us, “and everyone passes through it.” His experience is not an outlier. Our new report, published today by the academic-led Migrant Justice Institute, shows that for mi…