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Australia is bringing migrant workers back – but exploitation is still rampant. Here are 3 changes needed now

If the COVID years have taught us anything about migration, it is that Australia depends on it.

16 May 2022

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Underpayment of migrant workers

A client of Employment Rights Legal Service (ERLS) shares his experience of being underpaid on SBS News.

12 May 2022

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RLC in the media

Underpayment of migrant workers

A client of Employment Rights Legal Service (ERLS) shares his experience of being underpaid with SBS News.

11 May 2022

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Unpaid fines in NSW reach $1 billion

New South Wales residents owe $1 billion to the state government because of unpaid fines, with more than 380,000 individuals having unpaid enforceable debt with Revenue NSW.

3 May 2022

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The LECC determines serious misconduct in sexual touch case

A NSW Police Officer has been found to have engaged in serious misconduct over the treatment of a 15-year-old Aboriginal boy, which included flicking his exposed nipple and making a turkey noise, whilst the boy was sedated.

24 April 2022

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Wage theft 'endemic' senate committee finds

A senate inquiry set up in 2019 to look at wage theft after a string of high-profile cases, has concluded that unlawful underpayment of employees in Australia is systemic, sustained and shameful.

4 April 2022

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Getting ripped off by your employer

Redfern Legal Centre's employment law solicitor, Sharmilla Bargon, speaks to Triple J's Hack about what to do if you think you're a victim of wage theft.

4 April 2022

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This teenager says Subway ripped her off, and she's taking her fight to the Fair Work Commission

Chantelle Zentveld, 17, was thrilled when she got an after-school job at the fast-food franchise Subway, but she soon suspected she was being underpaid.

2 April 2022

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Why Does Australia Still Make Laws That Are Detrimental to Aboriginal People?

The gap in inequality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is depressingly vast in the legal and justice system.

25 March 2022

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Block a Bridge or Tunnel = $22,000 fines for protesters

New penalties have been introduced for protesters who block major traffic and infrastructure in NSW.

24 March 2022

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Australia is bringing migrant workers back – but exploitation is still rampant. Here are 3 changes needed now

Underpayment of migrant workers

Underpayment of migrant workers

Unpaid fines in NSW reach $1 billion

The LECC determines serious misconduct in sexual touch case

Wage theft 'endemic' senate committee finds

Getting ripped off by your employer

This teenager says Subway ripped her off, and she's taking her fight to the Fair Work Commission

Why Does Australia Still Make Laws That Are Detrimental to Aboriginal People?

Block a Bridge or Tunnel = $22,000 fines for protesters

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