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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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With Skilled Worker visa numbers in decline, what’s the cost?
The number of Skilled Worker visas issued is at its lowest since 2021, but with vacancies in critical sectors unfilled and the risks of labour exploitation still high, we find real human and economic costs behind the politics of lowering numbers.
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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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