Migration Amendment (Protecting Migrant Workers) Bill 2021 | ACCI Submission
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and industry (ACCI) thanks the Government for the opportunity to comment on the exposure draft of the Migration Amendment (Protecting Migrant Workers) Bill 2021 (the Bill), and the accompanying Context Paper. There is much in the aims of the legislation, and in the execution of many of the amendments which ACCI supports or has to date not identified problems with. This reflects employer acceptance of the need for some level of change in the wake of the high profile matters that gave rise to the Migrant Worker Task Force (MWT) , and also noting the Fair Work system significant changes made in 2017, which for example increased fines tenfold.