Australlia's employment cop hampered by "labyrinthine" worker supply chains

Andrew Miller
Updated October 22 2020 - 1:04pm, first published September 23 2020 - 12:00pm
COMPLEX CHAINS: A senior Fair Work Ombudsman staffer has told a Senate inquiry there are somtimes up to five tiers of subcontracting in labor supply agreements.
COMPLEX CHAINS: A senior Fair Work Ombudsman staffer has told a Senate inquiry there are somtimes up to five tiers of subcontracting in labor supply agreements.

A senior bureacrat with the Fair Work Ombudsman's office has told a Senate inquiry determining who is the original employer of many seasonal horticultural workers can be similar to negotiating a labyrinth.

Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller

Journalist

I'm a general reporter with Stock & Land, with a special interest in irrigation issues. I completed my cadetship, with the Age, in 1980. Over my career, I've worked for ABC radio news (Mt Isa, Qld) and at provincial and suburban newspapers.

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