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Underpayment of international students in Australia
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Foreign student workers 'grossly underpaid’
Fresh allegations that foreign workers are being exploited have been made by two Melbourne universities. And they found that nearly 60 per cent of international students were being paid less than the minimum wage - often less than $10 an hour.
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Company fined $40,000 for underpaying Chinese employees
A Melbourne-based training provider which recruited students from China but then underpaid them and failed to give them properly supervised workplace training has been fined $40,000.
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Pakistain student was underpaid at $1.26 an hour
A Pakistain student was paid just $1.26 an hour for more than 150 hours of work as a security guard at the 2008 Open in Western Australia. His employers were fined a total of $115,500 in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court.
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International students are underpaid for extra hours in Western Sydney
International students are being exploited by employers in Western Australia. Some of them are given 14-16 hour shifts with no break, and some employers were forcing them to work unpaid extra hours.
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Overseas students earn only $5 an hour in Adelaide
Overseas students exploited by bosses in Adelaide. Most of them are Indian students, being employed to do cleaning jobs, working at only $5 per hour across Adelaide.
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International students worked $9 an hour in sushi restaurant chain
A sushi restaurant chain has admitted it paid some foreign students as little as $9 an hour for cash shifts. They worked in cash and without legal contracts. One indian student said she was paid nothing for her training shift at a well-regarded Indian restaurant in Glebe.
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Students underpaid at 7-Eleven
The owners of a Geelong 7-Eleven store have been fined $150,000 and their company ordered to back pay almost $90,000 in underpaid wages to six exploited international students.The students were paid flat rates of between $9 and $12 an hour.
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A firm fined $162,000 for underpaying international students
A private firm in Australia was fined $162,000 for underpaying international students. One workers was underpaid 40,583 Australian dollars during the breaches, which happened between 2005 and 2009.
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International students paid $6 an hour in Aedlaide
OVERSEAS students getting as little as $6 an hour to work in local Asian restaurants are too afraid to complain for fear of losing even the meagre wages paid by their unscrupulous bosses.
Source:Gardian Messenger
