Foreign-language ads offering $8 an hour for jobs
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Foreign-language ads offering $8 an hour for jobs
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Migrant workers in Sydney are being systematically underpaid and a union analysis of more than 3000 foreign-language job ads reveals offers of illegally low wages as low as $8 an hour are rife.
The analysis of Chinese, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Nepalese and Portuguese ads from December 2019 until last August in NSW found 88 per cent of the ads in community websites, Facebook pages and media outlets offered wages below industry minimums.
One worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described being underpaid by more than $100,000.