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Will the Fair Work Agency put immigration enforcement before workers’ rights?
Following announcements in the budget, we are concerned that the Fair Work Agency's focus and resources are being shifted away from protecting the most vulnerable workers, and towards tougher immigration enforcement.
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'Earned' settlement proposals: an extraordinary betrayal of migrant communities
New Home Office plans to retroactively double the baseline waiting period for settlement, and impose additional English and financial requirements for all, have delivered the biggest blow to migrant communities in a generation.
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How new asylum rules creating a temporary refugee status will fuel exploitation
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plans to create a temporary 30-month refugee status risk pushing refugees away from good, sustainable work, and towards exploiters or traffickers.
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Radical restrictions of routes to settlement would be callous
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has proposed a radical restriction of migrants' and refugees' pathways to settlement. This is the press statement we issued on the day, and a summary of our initial concerns.
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Increasing qualifying time for ILR would increase the risk of poverty and exploitation, the MAC warns
The government’s ambition to further reduce net migration is a political choice that will result in a society where care for elderly people is rationed, workers are at greater risk of exploitation, and migrant families live in poverty for longer.
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