Ooooh so brave to "name and shame" exploiters

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Lucie, see here.

when’s this happening?

jr -> Exactly what is your problem with a senator delivering information in the Senate?

Seems appropriate to me. And, yes, parliamentary privilege applies, but political consequences still do too. One political consequence is that she goes up a notch in my opinion.

I would have thought the horse has already bolted.

WIN did a story around a week ago naming Zeffirelli, and talking to their affected staff.

Hospitality establishments screwing over the workers? Surely not! Anyway..as Indi asked…have any laws been broken?

No stories out there about the blatant exploitation of casual waiting staff? Unpaid “trials”, sexual harrassment, dismissal without reason or payment of monies owed?

The hospitality industry is founded on exploitation!

Bring it on. If she’s wrong the Privileges Committee will sort her out. I want to know who these businesses area as I certainly wouldn’t want to be eating or enjoying a cold beer at some establishment that was screwing over workers – foreign or otherwise.

I understand that there is good evidence to suggest that the businesses in question have breeched the conditions of their hosted employment visas (I assume that this would be covered under the Immigration Act or similar) which require them to pay award wages and provide award conditions and cover all medical and related expenses with respect to foreign workers they have brought to Australia – my guess is that these requirements would have been inserted at the behest of the pinko-left – eager to protect mediocrity in the workplace at the expense of more jobs rather than for any particular concern for the wellbeing of foreign chefs, kitchen-hands and dish-pigs.

My guess bulldog? Someone who wants to report it has fed the info to Kate so she can use parliamentary privilege and they can then use qualified privilege to report it.

This is a fairly common tactic to get defamatory information out there.

Just out of curiosity, how does Kate obtain this information? She’d want to be fairly certain that she’s got it right if she’s planning a smear-spree…

Either way – where has it been indicated that the businesses in question have broken any laws?