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Understanding visa working hour restrictions
Restrictions on working hours make the life of migrant workers more miserable. They apply to different visas and include student visas, which are limited to working up to 48 hours per fortnight. Different justifications are given for these restrictions, but for the Australian government they are apparently intended to maintain the primary focus of students
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What happened to abolishing junior pay rates? Understanding the Fair Work Commission
In March this year, the Fair Work Commission decided to partly abolish junior pay rates for retail, fast food, and pharmaceutical workers. Until now, workers under 21 years old were legally paid beneath the adult minimum wage – this is why many young people in their first jobs are paid $14/hour, while an adult doing
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New law passed by Labor can ban refugees fleeing wars they support🤮
Last week the Labor government, in consort with their warmongering and anti-immigrant buddies in One Nation and the Coalition, passed a bill that allows the govt to turn away people from certain countries for 6 months—even if they have valid temporary visas. The law was rushed through after the US-Israeli war on Iran began and