In a boost for the government’s war on labour-hire firms, Coles has joined major unions in calling for improvements for seasonal farm workers to shore up its supply chain.
Supermarket giant Coles is calling for enforceable, uniform housing standards for seasonal farm workers and rules against unfairly docking their pay to prevent overseas labourers from living in poverty and squalor and to shore up supply chains in an industry wracked by reputational damage.
Compiled by consultancy Deloitte, the report acknowledges the difficulty of attracting workers to seasonal work and the reliance on migrant labour through working holidaymaker visas, which give extended working rights to those who work in agriculture, and the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme, which allows workers from the Pacific and East Timor to stay in Australia for three years to fill job shortages in agriculture and meat processing, butAccording to recent federal government...
. The government will next year introduce legislation aimed at overhauling the labour-hire economy by requiring outsourced workers to be paid the same for doing the same job as those who are directly employed.Researchers contributing to the report observed seasonal workers were accommodated in overcrowded share houses, and undocumented workers – the most vulnerable cohort – lived in share houses often owned by labour-hire contractors.
AWU national secretary Daniel Walton said accommodation and facilities were a major concern to the union.
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