New laws to include making it a criminal offence to coerce someone into breaching their visa condition and bans on hiring other visa holders
Australian employers who exploit migrant workers will be banned from hiring other visa holders and will face new criminal penalties, as part of a government crackdown.
The changes, to be introduced to parliament within weeks, will include making it a criminal offence to coerce someone into breaching their visa condition. This offence will attract a penalty of up to two years in prison.The government will also use new prohibition notices to “stop employers from further hiring people on temporary visas where they have exploited migrants”.
The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, said that over the past 10 years the migration system had “drifted deeper and deeper into reliance on low-paid temporary migrant workers who we know are routinely exploited”.
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