Adam Bandt speaks on Labor/Liberal deal on the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement in Parliament
Labor and Liberal have done a deal on the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement that supposedly includes protections for workers. Labor has been sold a pup and has caved into the government. There are holes big enough in this Labor/Liberal deal to fly planeloads of underpaid, exploited workers through. The protections Labor has negotiated with the government are only in regulation, not legislation. Any so called protection introduced by a Minister one day can be removed the next. There is no cap on the number of visas that can be issued at any one time. Significantly, as Bill Shorten admitted to Parliament, whole swathes of visas can be issued for so-called ‘Contractual Service Suppliers’ without any of these new protections applying at all. Labor and Liberal have left a gaping hole that will allow exploitation of overseas and local workers to continue. The Greens have no problem with overseas workers coming to Australia to work, but we have a basic principle that employers should be advertising locally first.
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