UNCC300: Human Diginity & the Temporary Skilled Workers Visa- Case Study Assignment

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INTRODUCTION
The Temporary Skilled Workers Visa (nicknamed the 457 Visa) was originally termed the “Business (Long Stay) Visa”. It was set up in 1996 to allow multinational corporations to bring high level executive and specialist staff into Australia to work temporarily in management roles. 1 However, this was soon expanded to include a wide range of professionals, semi-professionals and tradespeople, on the assumption that these workers were filling skills shortages in the Australian labour market. While these visas have allowed Australian companies to source skilled labour from overseas, they have come under fire more recently, with claims that foreign workers on temporary skilled working visas were being exploited by unscrupulous employers and migration agents, making them a source of cheap labour. The scheme has been criticised for pushing down local wages, causing a relationship of dependency between overseas temporary workers and their Australian employees, and “coming dangerously close to ‘bonded labour’.” 2 These videos from ABC News, in 2008 (transcript) and 2013 (transcript), outline the kinds of exploitation experienced by temporary skilled workers, and demonstrate how little has changed in the scheme over the past 5 years.

In this article, “Australia’s 457 Visa Scheme and the Rights of Migrant Workers,” authors Michelle Bissett and Ingrid Landau detail patterns of abuse and mistreatment of migrant workers through two case studies. First, they detail the case of Anabalagan Rajendran, brought into Australia by the owner of four Indian restaurants. Bissett and Landau claim that during Anabalagan’s stay, 3
1. He was dependent upon his employer for food, money, accommodation and transportation.
2. He was never shown a work roster, he would simply be picked up from home and driven to successive restaurants to work.
3. He worked at least 14 hours a day, seven days a week for 40 weeks straight.
4. Even when he was sick, he still worked.
5. He received no wages until the Workplace Ombudsman initiated an investigation into his treatment. He was told by his employer that he would not receive wages for a year, as his employer had paid for his airplane ticket to Australia.

In another case, Bissett and Landau discuss the case of Jack Zhang, whose story was reported in The Age newspaper,
“Our guest workers who’ve had enough.” In these cases, and many more such cases, numerous workers’ rights have been disregarded, namely rights to “fair wages and remuneration ensuring an existence worthy of human dignity; equal remuneration for work of equal value; safe and healthy working conditions”, reasonable allowances for rest and leisure; “reasonable limitations on working hours and public holidays with pay.”

Task:

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Choose one case study from those presented.
Explain why you believe this to be an issue where human dignity is a critical factor. Analyse at least two perspectives on this particular case. The following questions should act as a guide in your analysis.
1. What understanding of the concept of human dignity appears to be at work in each perspective?
2. What are the social attitudes, norms, or circumstances that may have influenced each perspective? To what extent do these social attitudes, norms, or circumstances impact on the understanding of human dignity in each perspective?
3. How does each perspective justify particular actions or choices with reference to human dignity?
4. We have considered human dignity and the human person as multidimensional. If you consider in isolation the argument of each perspective in turn, what aspects of human dignity could be jeopardised by any actions arising from those perspectives?

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