Na saunoa Associate Professor Bassina Farbenblum, e tele aogā o le polokalame mo tagata Pasefika o loo faigaluega i le PALM Scheme, fa’apena fo’i mo le ‘aufaifa’ato’aga ma Kamupani o loo ofoina galuega:
“For many workers, it’s an excellent experience that allows them to send remittances home and gain skills and provide important labour to Australian employers”.
Peita’i, na ia fa’aalia e to’atele nisi o tagata faigaluega fa’avaitaimi mai le Pasefika e lē o fiafia i tulaga o loo galulue ai, ae lē mafai i lalo o aiaiga o le polokalame le PALM Scheme, ona suia a latou galuega:
“Unfortunately, there are still quite a large number of workers who are not fully realising the gains of the program because they’re being treated fairly at work – they want to change their employer, but unfortunately, they’re not able to”.
O nisi o aiaiga e lē o mulimulita’ia e nisi o Kamupani, o le tatau lea ona totogi tagata i totogi itula (minimum hourly rates), ma e tatau ona iai le aofa’i maualalo o itula e fa’amalosia le Kamupani e totogi i tagata faigaluega:
“It’s very clear that workers are not to paid piece rates, there are minimum hourly rates and also minimum hours that need to be given to the worker, and if they’re not given those hours, they still need to be paid”.
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Na saunoa fo’i Associate Professor Bassina Farbenblum, ua tatau i le malo tele ona suia aiaiga o le polokalame ina ia mafai ai e tagata faigaluega ona suia Kamupani ma galuega e galulue ai. I le taimi nei, e mafai ona tafili saunoa le Kamupani ona e iloa e lē mafai e se tagata faigaluega ona fa’amavae ma su’e seisi ana galuega:
“The most important thing the Australian Government can do is to support mobility that allows workers to change employers; that would make workers much less vulnerable, and if an employer knows that it’s possible for a worker to leave, that creates a different power dynamic than an employer who knows that that the worker has to stay no matter how they’re being treated”.
“In addition to that, Commonwealth, states and local governments need to understand the barriers that stop PALM workers from reporting”.
Ma na ia ta’ua, ua tatau i le malo tele ona faia seisi fuafuaga e lē taunu’u mai ai se tagata faigaluega ua iai sana ‘aitalafu i le Kamupani ae le’i amataina ona faigaluega:
“A really important one is that workers should not be arriving with any debt. At the moment, the worker arrives with a debt to their employer for travel and other costs that they pay off over time. We believe those costs should be paid off by the Commonwealth government”.
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