Seasonal worker payments shock

PACIFIC island workers employed at a Victorian abattoir are taking home little more than $9 an hour after hundreds of dollars are deducted from their weekly pay to cover airfares, visas, phone plans, housing and furniture rentals.

Seasonal worker payments shock

Seasonal worker payments shock

Seasonal worker payments shock

Seasonal worker payments shock

Seasonal worker payments shock

Paul Conway, federal president of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union, says processing companies had become increasingly reliant on workers from the Pacific since the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic

14 September 2021
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Contracts between Pacific islander meat workers and labour hire firm Regional Workforce Management Pty Ltd show some workers are left with just $310 from their weekly pay of $753 after the deductions

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