What migrant workers told us about pay and conditions
Findings from our national survey of people on visas working in Australia.
Chapter 1
The survey and participants
Who took part: visas, nationality, location and year of arrival.
Read → Chapter 2Findings on underpayment in lowest paid job
How far below the minimum wage floor migrant workers were paid.
Read → Chapter 3Industry snapshots
Where underpayment is concentrated, industry by industry.
Read → Chapter 4Insecure work, deeper underpayment
ABN, casual and cash arrangements, and what they cost workers.
Read → Chapter 5Further FWA non-compliance and obfuscation of underpayment
Payslips, cash wages and unpaid super.
Read → Chapter 6Underpayment and forced labour indicators
Where underpayment overlaps with signs of forced labour.
Read → Chapter 7Responses to underpayment
Whether workers sought their wages back, and what stopped them.
Read → Chapter 8Key recommendations
What government and business can do to fix it.
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