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The Chinese students are generally held up salary, Some took law weapons to fight back

Source: xkb.com.au
[Education News]     04 Sep 2020
Overseas students and holidaymakers in australia are easy targets for bosses to withhold salary, some paying as little as $5 an hour, but some are choosing to pick up law weapons to fight back.
The Chinese students are generally held up salary, Some took law weapons to fight back

The catering industry is an industry in which more foreign students work

Overseas students and holidaymakers in australia are easy targets for bosses to withhold salary, some paying as little as $5 an hour, but some are choosing to pick up law weapons to fight back.

Ms. naomi (Naomi), a chinese female student, has been salary by her boss thousands of times before, but says more and more students are coming forward to defend their legitimate rights and interests.

She came to Australia two years ago from China to study early childhood care and education. Her parents initially provided economic support to enable her to concentrate on her studies, but when her father's factory was forced to close because of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, she began working to earn living expenses.

She found a job in a restaurant with an hourly salary of 12 yuan, and the boss said the hourly salary increased to 20 yuan a month later. But the day of a raise will never come. After two weeks of work, she was told to go home and wait for the next round of work, but the call never called her.

"They give you hope, and then they take it away ," Naomi said. "

"I'm curious about Australia. If every law is so perfect, why can these companies still get rid of it here? They made Australian money, but took all the benefits into their pockets. "

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Bosses are exploiting vulnerable people by exploiting the lack of knowledge of the labour relationship system in the immigrant community, especially those who can only speak English. A few unscrupulous employers give salary as low as 5.5 per hou

In South Australia, they usually advertise on a Chinese information website in Adelaide. Many job advertisements do not indicate hourly wages, even if they are, they are depressed when they go to work and negotiate.

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Workers over the age of 20 who work as temporary workers in the hotel and catering industry are about salary 25 yuan an hour, according to the salary calculations of the Office of the Commissioner for Fair Work.

A restaurant owner gave the dishwasher $14 an hour in a january video of a chinese job-vacation holder looking for a job salary. when the job applicant asked why it was so low, the employer replied ," we have our own way ".

A group of applicants received text messages from employers showing that the hourly wage for these jobs was generally between $10 and $11, with a minimum of $5.

Mr. chen (Jacky Chen) and mr. dintant (Dante Ding), who founded a social app group that uncovered information about unscrupulous employers, said they did so because they would tell the tax bureau that their employees worked hours and correctly salary. but in worked more than twice as long as employers reported. This means that they actually get half the hourly wage that the boss reports to the tax bureau.

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"For foreign students, they live in another world at work ," she said. "

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"As a rule, we consider the labour market to be a normal system of labour relationship, black market people trade in cash or do not keep accounts. And these students survive in the labor market outside our labor relationship system. "

"They go from farms to restaurants to cleaning services. Not only South Australia, but all over the country. "

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Because the federal government refused to provide any support, many people were in trouble.

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"As a rule, international students don't get the right information about their rights ." at work ,avanaugh said

"There are many reasons for this. It weakens law-abiding businesses that follow the rules. When someone does something from the book, it affects income. Then, it has an impact on the economic, because these foreign students are withheld salary, they have no money to spend money on things, affecting consumption. "

Although there are no specific figures to quantify the salary income of foreign students looted by their employers, Kavanaugh's model shows that they lose 270 million yuan a year.

This figure was calculated by assessing the results of the audit of 23 fair work inspectors in South Australia, who examined the accounts of 1,700 enterprises.

Other similar figures are hard to come by, but pwc (PWC) used a similar method last year to calculate the losses of withholding salary for students nationwide, estimated at around $1.35 billion.

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