Call For Crackdown on 457 workers.

[Banjo]

Crackdown on 457 workers welcome - Careerlinker proprietor

WHEN he heard the CFMEU wanted the reins tightened on 457 work visas, Rockhampton's John Fitzgerald saw a glimmer of hope. He saw hope for the Australian citizens he felt employers often overlooked in favour of workers imported from other countries.

He thought it was a good idea to put a cap on the number of 457 visa workers allowed in the country, across various industries.

"There are so many 457 workers in tourism, retail, and hospitality yet there are so many Australian citizens on Centrelink who could be used in those areas," Mr Fitzgerald said.

"It's unfair that many employers are looking to pay 457s much less than the minimum wage anyway."

Mr Fitzgerald is the proprietor of Careerlinker and administers the Rockhampton and CQ Job Vacancies Facebook page.

www.whitsundaytimes.com.au/news/crackdown-on-imported-labour-welcome/2259164/

[immiadvice]

Abbott will only make 457 visas easier so he can please his big business buddies.

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[mikey]

Discussion on local radio today how the fruit growers in Tassie sign contracts with agencies that supply backpackers, and then local youth can't get the work.

[Banjo]

It's not the backpackers fault, it's the primary producers lobbying for cheaper labour.
Give them their visas but make the employers pay full wages and entitlements.
Level the playing field.

A friend of mine worked in the UK for two years and gets a pension off them.

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HI Banjo, you are obviously getting wiser as you get older!!! If you keep making sensible comments like this, you may get head hunted by the Pollies to join them - oh what am I saying! They cant even spell Common Sense let alone have any.

[Banjo]

Sorry Mogo, all the DSPoverseas staff jobs are taken...

Another member talked about history and the causes of revolution today, we should also remember the whipping boy theory of divide and rule, the Jews in Germany, the blacks in the American south, immigrants world wide... politicians use them to distract people from what is really happening....
The right hand waves a distracting handkerchief... look at this look at this... the left is firmly in the till or around an opponents throat.

Goebbels and Mandrake have a lot to answer for.

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on which the government can play.”
― Joseph Goebbels