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With My Family’s Slave, journalist Alex Tizon challenges our complacency over domestic workers. When does domestic work become slavery?
While Costa Ricans pride their country for being an oasis of stability in Latin America, the nation has struggled with restrictive laws and social attitudes toward immigrants from Nicaragua.
Australia needs to empower migrant workers to report abuse, and more effectively punish employers that do the wrong thing.
The way we classify skills shortages is broken.
Slavery, indenture and industrialisation have all contributed to Mauritius’ multiculturalism - and to its deep social tensions.
Unscrupulous employers who exploit migrant labour are posing a large threat to the continued contribution that immigrant workers make to the agricultural industry, a new report reveals.
The taskforce must redesign Australia’s rather chaotic and unfair temporary labour migration program.
South Sudanese living in the ACT are facing racism when job seeking and can’t get employment in roles for which they have professional qualifications.
The history of how the British fell out of love with seasonal farm work.
The response of the US Knights of Labor to mass immigration, 100 years ago, can help British Labour to resolve its immigration problem today.
Surely it isn’t too far-fetched to claim that if migrants are to promote democracy back home, it is beneficial for them to experience democratic values and principles in the countries hosting them.
The British PM thinks he has a deal to avert a Brexit? The rest of the union has far more pressing problems to think about.
Most Australian exporters support the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, but it shouldn’t adversely affect labour standards.
Australia’s current interest in the work temporary migrants do is laudable but needs to extend to other important issues of this million-strong community.
Sunday penalty rates will go under Productivity Commission recommendations, but overall our workplace system was basically operating well, it found.
Without workplace reform, Australia is at risk of a US-style migrant worker problem.
Clothes manufacturing in the UK has seen a striking revival since 2007. Not only have new business models come onto the scene, particularly with the growth of online retailers, their actual manufacture…
The Coalition government has assured the Australian electorate it will not proceed with any major industrial relations reforms until it has secured a mandate to do so. But this has not stopped the government…
Prime minister David Cameron has announced plans to ban EU immigrants from receiving state benefits, including tax credits and social housing for a minimum of four years. The proposal is designed to make…
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