(I am breaking my own rule here, because this item is not about maginalised migrants- but I felt it was too important not to publicise as widely as possible. And, indeed, the Australian 457 visa has come dangerously close to producing forced labour Chinese slave labour in Australia )
Change.org reports that the US Department of Labor [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘work visa’
September 14, 2009
Which goods are produced by children and slaves?
August 11, 2009
Australia on trial in first Southeast Asian Court of Women
The first Southeast Asian Court of Women on HIV and Human Trafficking is being held in Bali. More than 20 Southeast Asian women have narrated their personal stories of exploitation and abuse.
I have been concerned about the 457 visa because, whatever controls the government may put in place, the worker is still beholden to the [...]
August 4, 2009
Rudd sweetens unions with 457 visa hints
‘Curbs on the use of 457 visas’ was one of the carrots thrown by Rudd to the manufacturing and construction unions at the ALP conference last weekend. Rudd seeks long-term reform era
July 29, 2009
Indian women liberated by passing English test
The blogger at Faint Voice tells us that there is ‘a quiet revolution in the status of women in deep rural, backward caste and poor Punjab. Girls who in past were not sent to school would now look forward to getting preference over boys in being sent to school, given time off to house work [...]
July 27, 2009
Imposters. Secret documents. That’s the Australian visa business
Staff of Australia’s largest international student service, IDP Australia, are being investigated for possible corruption, after some students in were caught cheating on English exams.
Erik Jensen of the Sydney Morning Herald writes-
“A source in the Sydney Indian community said education agents had been selling copies of the May International English Language Testings System exam for [...]
July 19, 2009
Immigration: The Human Cost
Yes, it’s Sunday – and it’s Funday once more- and they are still taking our jobs!
Warning ! Close your eyes and block your ears for the first 6 seconds and last 26 of this video – the aussiepossie does not endorse this message
more about “Immigration: The Human Cost“, posted with vodpod
July 7, 2009
Native-born Australians steal jobs
Who is taking all our jobs?
WE are!
Australian employers have mainly restricted the economy-wide job losses to migrant workers, and Australian-born workers have been shielded from the worst of the global recession.
The Australian says that Australian-born workers dropped 22,000 full-time jobs in the 12 months to May but picked up an extra 74,500 part-time jobs for [...]
June 8, 2009
Workers on 457 visas are real people, not just a line on a balance sheet
The editorial in the Adelaide Sunday Mail this week says:
“People migrating here on the promise of a job need some certainty the position will not evaporate; if it does, surely there needs to be some flexibility to allow them to find a comparable job. After all, the decision to migrate is a huge one. If [...]
May 13, 2009
Budget ‘09: Only independent skilled get the cut
Immigration in the Budget
The independent skilled migration program will be reduced to a total to 108,100 places.
The employer-sponsored and government-sponsored visa programs will remain uncapped
The Critical Skills List will remain as a guideline for assessing independent applications for Australian skilled migration.
Skilled trade occupation applicants who do not have a sponsor will need to score at [...]
