{"id":523754,"date":"2022-02-22T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/feb\/23\/suffer-in-silence-or-risk-speaking-up-exploited-migrant-workers-in-australia-face-perverse-dilemma"},"modified":"2022-02-22T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:30:14","slug":"suffer-in-silence-or-risk-speaking-up-exploited-migrant-workers-in-australia-face-perverse-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/22\/suffer-in-silence-or-risk-speaking-up-exploited-migrant-workers-in-australia-face-perverse-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffer in silence, or risk speaking up? Exploited migrant workers in Australia face perverse dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Migrants say they can lose their visas if they report an employer \u2013 and a government bill that is meant to protect them won\u2019t help<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>Michael* has called Australia home for nearly a decade. He has a partner and a child here, friends and a community, a career he wants to pursue. But he has consistently faced a perverse choice: tolerate exploitation for job security, or risk losing his protections and right to stay.<\/p><p>\u201cMy first employer used to bully me, all the time. I was forced to work long hours for no overtime, sometimes more than 60 hours without any more pay,\u201d he tells Guardian Australia. \u201cAt first I accepted to work like that, because I cannot do anything: I am relying on the visa.\u201d<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/feb\/23\/suffer-in-silence-or-risk-speaking-up-exploited-migrant-workers-in-australia-face-perverse-dilemma\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/feb\/23\/suffer-in-silence-or-risk-speaking-up-exploited-migrant-workers-in-australia-face-perverse-dilemma\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrants say they can lose their visas if they report an employer \u2013 and a government bill that is meant to protect them won\u2019t helpGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingMichael* has called Australia home for nearly a decade. He has a part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1729,6,242,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524027,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523754\/revisions\/524027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}