Australian Immigration Daily News

The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured $307,802 in penalties in the Federal Circuit Court in response to 154 workers across three PappaRich restaurants in Sydney being underpaid $74,000.

A total of $34,425 in penalties have been imposed against Loke Cheng Wong, manager-operator of the PappaRich franchise outlet at Macquarie Park, and former manager-operator of PappaRich franchise outlets in Chatswood and on Liverpool Street in the Sydney CBD.

In addition, two companies Mr Wong is a director and part-owner of - PPR Ryde (NSW) Pty Ltd and Gateharvest Pty Ltd – have been penalised $141,751 and $131,626, respectively, for their involvement in some of the underpayments.

Employers naturally felt a pinch when 216 occupations were removed from the Skilled Occupations List on 17 April 2019 upon the announcement that the 457 visa was being abolished. 

This left employers with handful of occupations which were further split into two segregated lists, the Short-term Skilled Occupations List (STSOL) with no access to permanent residence, as well as more restrictive New Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL), which allows permanent residence provided the occupation is most susceptible to supply constraints (e.g. due to the time taken to develop necessary skills) and/or most likely to warrant Australian Government intervention to address these constraints.

Nonetheless, this was all part of a well-planned reform to bring Australian immigration system into the 21^st century.  

Migration Newsletter 751 has been released and makes excellent reading:

Migration_Newsletter_751.01.pdf

It astounds me that persons who have been granted a protection visa  and who are not  Australian citizens travel overseas to the place from which they have originally fled, to visit family friends and spouses.

I have a case in front of me involving a citizen of Iraq who gained PR as a refugee and over the last 6 years has routinely travelled back to Iraq.

His visa was cancelled by resort to section 128 whilst he was offshore. He now has to seek a revocation of that cancellation.

Liana Allan, the founder of Migration Alliance, attended the Department of Home Affairs Industry Summit, held a the Grand Hyatt, Melbourne.   

During his presentation to Stakeholders at the Summit, both Migration Alliance and our founder, Liana Allan received a special mention from the Minister Jason Wood MP, for an excellent and successful migration conference held in Sydney last week.  Thank you to all the Migration Alliance members who attended our conference.  We ended up with 750 migration agents in attendance.  Apparently this is the largest migration agent conference ever hosted.

Liana Allan will be reporting on her day in a separate article here on this website either today or tomorrow.