Bill
Migration Amendment (Strengthening Employer Compliance) Bill 2023
passed, as at 2024-02-20. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-06-22
- second reading — 2023-06-22
- second reading — 2023-08-07
- second reading — 2023-09-11
- second reading — 2023-09-11
- third reading — 2023-09-11
- introduced — 2023-09-12
- second reading — 2023-09-12
- second reading — 2024-02-06
- second reading — 2024-02-06
- committee — 2024-02-06
- third reading — 2024-02-06
- other — 2024-02-07
- passed — 2024-02-07
- royal assent — 2024-02-20
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-06-22.
The bill would create new offences and penalties to stop employers exploiting temporary migrant workers.
It would let the minister prohibit an employer from hiring more temporary migrants when a court finds the employer broke migration, workplace or slavery laws.
The bill also requires the minister to publish the names of employers subject to such a prohibition and raises maximum penalties for work-related breaches.
- Creates new criminal offences and civil penalties for unduly influencing, pressuring or coercing a temporary migrant worker to breach a visa condition or accept exploitative work.
- Introduces a mechanism to prohibit an employer found by a court to have contravened the Migration Act, Fair Work Act or Criminal Code from hiring more temporary non-citizens.
- Allows the minister to publish names of prohibited employers.
- Creates a new offence for hiring a temporary migrant worker while subject to a prohibition.
- Increases and aligns maximum penalties for work-related and sponsorship breaches.
- Repeals section 235 of the Migration Act to avoid unintended consequences for workers.
Temporary migrant workers, their employers and labour hire intermediaries.
Sources
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